Japan is in for a rough ride.
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
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Tariff us back!
Japan is too lacking in both spine and (I think) allies to do that. Unlike Europe to them independence from the US (and generally doing things) has always been an afterthought. They're quite frankly screwed here.
It’s because they rely on US military support.
for what?
As a deterrence against North Korea and also China. NK sees Japan as an enemy because Japan was a colonizer of the peninsula and Japan is allied with South Korea. NK has kidnapped Japanese citizens in the 70’s and 80’s and they have fired rockets over Japan several times in the last 20 years so Japan sees NK as a real threat. And China has a territorial dispute with Japan and Japan is an ally of Taiwan.
Japan doesn’t have nukes, aircraft carriers or even bombers. While China has all of that and North Korea is building a nuclear arsenal. Japan’s own laws prevent them from building a full military force. They have what they call a Defense Force. Those laws were created when they were occupied by the US.
So they rely on the US for nuclear deterrence and support in case they do get attacked.
seems like a problem that the USA created and also just so happens to sell the solution
Well... their threat is more start selling off their US treasurey bonds that are worth more more than a trillion dollars and could potentially tank the value of the dollar itself if sold off on mass...
Please do it. Our people need to learn to be less selfish and stupid.
Please. I want to buy a new car soon and it's almost certainly going to be Japanese.
I too enjoy cars that don't fall apart at 100,000 miles
I, as a consumer in the US would like to not have to pay so much money for car parts. You know what I mean? Mr Orange goo, I have a car, it needs parts from time to time and I would like to just purchase the parts and not pay a tariff. Does that work?
Let me explain where I'm coming from. Like imagine I have $8 dollars and I see a part at a store that comes out to a total of 8 dollars. I would like to pay $8 dollars and not $9 dollars. Because 9 is higher than 8. See where I'm going?
Guys, not cool! You don’t do this part publicly. You have each company petition privately.
If Trump likes them, they get an exemption and get to raise prices anyway while going “Hoo boy, those tariffs, huh? Real shame. But what can you do?”
He’s going to have to run this by Putin