Week 3: Leslie Do

Leslie Do
ASA 189F, Professor Valverde
17th January 2016

Week 3: The Evolution of Doctrines Develops New National Images

     Although codes, standards for product quality, and institutes are crucial for rectifying new national images, the strategic evolution of doctrines that transforms the nation into a sovereign, international competitor also advances the (re)branding of developing, post-war nation-states. For instance, in his essay "Japan's Grand Strategic Shift," Tang Siew Man acknowledges that the Prime Minster Yoshida and the Yoshida doctrine fulfilled their immediate, diplomatic goal of securing basic necessities for Japan's citizens after the end of World War II (Man, 119, 2007). The Yoshida doctrine's other principle was maintaining Japan's pacifist, non-threatening status in the international system in order to rebuild its economy. With the intention of completely restoring Japan's economy after the war, the doctrine strategically implemented the US as a militaristic protector of Japan by providing bases for the US military, army, and navy forces (Man, 119, 2007); however, Man asserts that the post-Cold War era enforced the evolution of the Yoshida doctrine --the Koizumi doctrine-- to compensate for the flaws and limitations of Yoshida doctrine (Man, 120, 2007). For example, while the Yoshida doctrine lacked strategies to transform Japan into an international competitor and a sovereign player involved in international conflicts, the Koizumi doctrine transformed "post-Cold War Japan's economic influence into structural power" within the international system, focused on securing national tranquility, and used Japan's technologically advanced products to maintain economic distance ahead of its competitors (Man, 126, 2007).
      With regards to Japan's current competitive advantage in technology and the ongoing legacy of the Koizumi doctrine, I speculate that Japan's latest creations of robots are expanding its economic distance from other international competitors and developing its new national image of transhumanist robotics (Zolfagharifard, 2015.) Although these robots can save more lives during Japan's natural disasters and serve as caretakers of the future, childless elderly population (who will lack caretakers due to Japan's population decline,) globalists can still use these humanitarian purposes as fronts to hide the weaponization of robots. Globalist social engineers can program robots to socially control the masses, covertly track dissenters and frequently enter their information into globalist-controlled databases, and act as agents of population reduction (Zolfagharifard, 2015.) Therefore, what globalist foundations, foreign bankers, and foreign institutes are funding Japan's robotic projects and transhumanist experiments? What are the intentions and centralized agendas behind the funding of these projects? Why was Japan chosen to be the global center and image for transhumanist robotics? These questions will determine if Japan's robots are implicated in false humanist fronts and in international exports of new social control technology.

Bibliography

Tang, Siew Man. "Japan's grand strategic shift from Yoshida to Koizumi: reflection on Japan's strategic focus in the 21st Century." Akademika 70 (2007): 117-136.


Zolfagharifard, Ellie. "Androids Everywhere: From Superhero Suits to Realistic Humanoids, Japan Showcases the Latest in Robotics." Daily Mail.Com. Associated Newspapers, 02 Dec. 2015. Web. 17 Jan. 2016.