Declan Hayes > Quotes

“As stated above, America will eventually have to abandon its Asian bases. Its forward deployment policy will be at an end.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“police unearthed evidence that Aum were also developing a technique for enriching uranium, using laser beam equipment. Because Japan cannot eliminate the threat that this small but crazy group poses, this chapter has to question Japan's ability to deal with the much stronger one that North Korea, China,”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“Beijing has protested long and hard about America's sale of F-16s to Taiwan and has bought its way into the U.S. Democratic Party to ensure that there will be no repeat sales—even as its spies buy and steal America's nuclear secrets.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“No appeals to its outmoded constitution can change that. Japan must rearm and take its rightful place in the world.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“General Hideki Tojo ordered that the Sen Jin Kun, the Imperial Army's Battle Ethics, be distributed to all officers and men both at home and abroad. This order made the unwritten code of the samurai as interpreted by the Japanese High Command the required conduct of all Japanese servicemen. It ordered Japanese troops to embrace death warmly for the sake of the emperor-god and of the nation”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“Iraq cannot be bullied into acquiescence, and North Korea cannot be bribed into playing by the international rules. Given current projects, India and Pakistan must eventually go to war again.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan: The Toothless Tiger

“Enjo Kosai2 , a system whereby young schoolgirls prostitute themselves, has taken sex-crazed Tokyo by storm.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“Because Japan is the world's second largest economy, this will not change in the foreseeable future. The sociology of Japan's economy has been set in an immutably conservative mold.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“China's ultimate prize is East Asian hegemony, which is probably inevitable in any event. China's eventual regional ascendancy will spell the end of the Pax Americana in East Asia.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“Most of all though, Japan must not build up its military capabilities. It must, therefore, curtail large portions of its own industry, pay the United States to protect it, and hope against hope that its sea lanes will forever remain open and unthreatened.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“Japan's foreign policy must have teeth, and, if Japan does not have the fangs, it must acquire them. If the only language that tomorrow's Asia will understand comes from the barrel of a gun, Japan must relearn that language”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“China needs to control these sea routes to guarantee its own oil supplies. Although that is understandable, it comes at a cost to Japan. Japan must become engaged now to avoid that calamity.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“Unit 731's crimes against humanity continue. Chinese citizens are still dying from the chemical weapons that Hirohito's henchmen unleashed on them. Many of them have sued. Japan's sanctimonious, parsimonious, and hypocritical position on financial compensation is that the issue was settled as part of the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty. In that treaty, Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“Unless Japan is prepared to see Japanese blood being spilled, unless Japan is prepared to see Japanese soldiers return to Japan in body bags, it cannot expect others to die for its interests. No appeals to its outmoded constitution can change that. Japan must rearm and take its rightful place in the world.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“There is as much of a chance that it will implode and drag its trading partners down into the abyss with it as there is that it will embark on overseas military adventures.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“There is no peaceful way that China's rise to power can be halted. Her demographics alone see to that.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger

“China has signed a $1.2 billion deal with Saddam Hussein to develop the Ahdab oilfield.”
― Declan Hayes, Japan the Toothless Tiger