Trump & Abe regard joint marketing of nuclear power plants in third party countries as pillar of U.S.-Japan economic cooperation
February 3, 2017 As reported by the Asahi Shimbun, regarding the Feb. 10 Abe-Trump summit:
The draft proposal contains five main pillars for economic cooperation that “would bring about economic growth and jobs in both nations and further strengthen ties.”
Another pillar would involve cooperation in developing markets in nations other than Japan and the United States. The goal is to develop a market of $150 billion over 10 years through joint development of commercial jets and marketing of nuclear power plants. (emphasis added)
An earlier meeting between President-elect Trump, and Prime Minister Abe, held last November in New York City, caused a stir when Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, attended, despite lacking proper security clearances.
NBC News has reported on the conflicts of interest created by Trump hosting Abe at his golf resort in Florida. Remarkably, the article reports that Abe's grandfather, Japanese Prime Minister Shinsuke Kishi, similarly golfed with Sen. Prescott Bush, father of George H.W. Bush, and grandfather of George W. Bush, as well as President Dwight D. Eisenhower, at Burning Tree Country Club in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1957.
Kishi had been imprisoned for three years as a Class A War Criminal after WWII. But the U.S. saw him as their best hope for pro-U.S. leadership in Japan, and released him. Kishi's -- and Abe's -- Liberal Democratic Party has ruled Japan for almost all of its post WWII history.
The Liberal Democratic Party was founded in the mid-1950s. One of its founding planks was pro-nuclear power. It turns out that the U.S. CIA had a hand in that.
After the Castle Bravo H-bomb fallout disaster on March 1, 1954, the Eisenhower administration sent the CIA to Japan to sell "Atoms for Peace" as a balm to soothe public anger. Eisenhower had delivered his infamous "Atoms for Peace" speech at the UN General Assembly in New York City just a few months earlier, on Dec. 8, 1953.
The CIA recruited Shoriki, the owner of Japan's largest t.v. station and newspaper, as a secret CIA agent, to help sell nuclear power to the Japanese people. Shoriki also co-founded the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Shoriki's CIA agent status was not revealed until 2006.
Abe has continued the Liberal Democratic Party's pro-nuclear policies, despite the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe, and despite pressure from his own wife, Akie, and his mentor in politics, former Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi. Koizumi has alleged Abe lied, when he told the International Olympic Committee that the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe was "under control," in his successful bid to secure the 2020 Summer Games for Tokyo.