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42 sats \ 9 replies \ @BlokchainB 27 Apr \ parent \ on: Will the yen's crash now be followed by a chain reaction? econ
Japan is an island they would starve without food imports. Read your history about WWII the reason why Japan was so ruthless in Korea and China was because they needed resources.
And of course USA does Japan doesn’t spend trillions on defense. If USA was to leave all their bases today Japan would be of risk of take over just like Taiwan
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Japan has no oil and they need oil. No oil no self sufficiency. It really is that easy.
Yeah but Japan benefits tremendously from USA presence. If they had to defend their own territory it would be a huge economic drain on their limited resources
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No oil
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But this defeats the point of an island being self sufficient
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