American policy of Japanese leadership
70 years have elapsed after the end of World War II, but Japan is still acting like a faithful US watchdog. Japan still cannot break the bonds of the US influence that have effused like cancerous metastases to the overall spheres of Japanese government for a long time.
Under constraint of the US Administration Japanese government is compelled to pursue the policy of confrontation with neighboring countries – China and Russia. This policy may cause the creation of anti-Japanese military block of these two Great Powers. The policy of remilitarization doesn't meet national interests of Japan, but it serves as an instrument of the US efforts to restrain the competition in Asia Pacific Region.
Besides the political influence America puts moral and physical pressure upon ordinary Japanese. Since the aftermath of World War II the deployment of US military bases inside Japan has become a burden for local people who live nearby these military facilities. The situation with US military bases has an explosive nature. The new cases associated with permanent operation activity in bases and violence incidents against Japanese women and girls were expressed disapproval and displeasure of the local population and found expression in the anti-American protest actions.
During last five years numerous protest actions against US Armed Forces presence have taken place in Okinawa. The Japanese people's point of view at this problem is going against the Japanese authorities' interests and thereon this problem is being relevant by the day. This problem resides in complete withdrawal US troops from Japan.
Also Japanese are concerned about the increase of the defense budget to the detriment of state expenditure allocated to the social security. In 2015 defense budget of Japan is the biggest since the end of World War II and run at 4.98 trillion yen (US$ 42 billion). It appears that according to the orders of the White House Shinzo Abe's government is going to create the military machine controlled by the USA and serving the US foreign policy.
The nation's leadership considers Japan is still burdened by postwar restrictions that were imposed on it after the defeat in World War II. According to Shinzo Abe the time has come to be excused from the postwar chains and to mold Japan into a country with own full-fledged army.
However there are a lot of opponents of Prime Minister' remilitarizing policy at the domestic level. The people want to live in the country built on the principles of pacifism and without imperialist ambitions pushed by the USA.
So 70 years after the end of World War II the world suffered global changes, but Japan is still a country occupied by the USA. As before Washington pursues policy of world gendarme to the Land of the Rising Sun and makes nation's leadership to work against Japanese people' interests and creates a new seat of tension in Asia Pacific Region.