US election brings on fretting season in Japan

1. 2024-11-06 at 10:40 PM UTC

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   6835378gjjsjs Houston
   https://asiatimes.com/2024/11/us-election-brings-on-fretting-season-in-japan/
   

   It’s fretting season once again in Japan. You see, Japan frets every four years when America chooses a new president. (Americans fret too, but that’s another story.)
   
   Most observers believe the Japanese would prefer the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, over former president Donald Trump
   
   
   One main reason: Trump is “unpredictable” – even though you’d think that after four years of dealing with him, the Japanese had figured him out.
   
   But perhaps for Japan unpredictable translates as the fear Trump might ask the Japanese – or, better said, their bureaucrats and foreign policy class – to do something they don’t want to do.
   
   Given that the United States is on the hook to defend Japan, and certainly after 60-plus years of the US-Japan Alliance, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Tokyo might be asked to do a few things out of its comfort zone – and especially now that the threat from the People’s Republic of Chine (PRC), not to mention Beijing’s friends in Pyongyang and Moscow, is higher than ever….

   
   
   I could tell by the facial expressions and body language something had them nervous. No reason to be though, haha. Dont worry
2. 2024-11-07 at 2:22 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Thought this said frotting. am no longer interested
3. 2024-11-07 at 3:06 AM UTC

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   maddie Tuskegee Airman
   fret is such a good word.