RealClearWorld - Japan Now a Punching Bag for Great Powers
TOKYO - The American comedian Rodney Dangerfield made a career and established a national catch phrase from his line, “I don't get no respect.” There are many in Japan who believe the country’s political and diplomatic leaders are turning their country into the geopolitical Rodney Dangerfield.
“Everything is a mess,” says Takashi Kawakami, a professor of security matters at Takushoku University. “I think Japanese diplomacy may be the worst in postwar history.” Most lay the blame squarely with Prime Minister Naoto Kan and his inexperienced party, which took office a little more than one year ago.
In recent weeks it seems like Japan has become a punching bag between its two largest neighbors, China and Russia. The first blow stems, of course, from the incident surrounding the detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain last September.
Japan’s decision first to detain the captain of the fishing boat that reportedly rammed coast guard vessels, and its subsequent decision to release him to return home in the face of unprecedented pressure from China, may have been a practical move, but it was taken as a major diplomatic defeat by most Japanese people.
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