Ahead! JAPANESE REARMAMENT - Keith W Stump - February 1981

Keith W Stump

The changing geopolitical scene in East Asia may leave Japan no choice: It is rearm or perish! Japan today faces a sobering reality. Japan is Asia's premier industrial nation. Its remarkable postwar economic miracle has been admired around the world. The industrious Japanese are affluent- ahead of most Europeans, and not far behind the United States. But there is one potentially fatal flaw. Japan's prosperity relies on peace. Japan has no major natural resources. It cannot feed itself. It cannot energize itself. Japan is starvable. The nation relies on international trade for its very survival. Without it, Japan's huge industrial machine would grind to a sudden halt! Were Japan to be denied food and energy-whether through war or some other form of economic disruption - the nation would face the specter of virtual overnight collapse! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library