[War] Japan: "While We Wait"

[Ian Martell]

(OOC: The date on the last post should have been Feb 3rd 2013)

“While We Wait…”
Prime Minister Hiroshi Sakai
Japan
February 3rd 2013

Hiroshi came up from the Disaster Response Center where the Japanese 
Security Council met in times like this. There wasn’t much more to report on 
the Kim Jong-Il situation the JADF was dispatching some of their SigInt 
planes to have better listen to what was going on in North Korea. They had 
orders not to enter DPRK airspace and he expected them to keep to that. 
Still it made him nervous, if the KPA jumped them, he would need to respond.

It was days like these he almost wished he believed in a god of some kind to 
assure him it was all part of some plan. Secular Humanists didn’t have that 
sort of comforting illusion. Though days like today he wished they did.

He stepped out onto the portico of the old Kantei, under which the Disaster 
Response Center was built and lit up a cigarette he’d borrowed from one of 
his security men.

Jonouchi followed him out. “Why bother with that little thing?” he asked and 
pulled out a cigar from his inside pocket and offered it to Hiroshi.

He snuffed out the cigarette and took and lit the cigar.

“Thank you,” he said.

Jonouchi nodded as he lit his own.

They were silent a moment then Hiroshi spoke.

“What I was going to say about the Kuril’s is that we need a third option,” 
he said. “Other than Russia wins, or Japan wins, basically the debate is 
about national pride more than land.”

“And the money from the oil,” Jonouchi said.

“That -might- be there,” Hiroshi countered.

“True,” he said.

“We need a way for Nemerenko and I both to walk away from the table 
winners.”

“I will put my people on it,” Jonouchi says.

“Where are we with the call to America?” Hiroshi asked, he’d spoke to the 
President of the ROK and offered full intelligence co-operation and 
discussed the possibility of a blockade to prevent the escape of any WMDs by 
sea.

They had given him a definite maybe.

“We’re still waiting.”

Hiroshi nodded. “And China,” he said.

China had been added after the Council decided the best thing we could for 
the world was keep the WMDs in North Korea.

“Same,” he said.

Hiroshi nodded. “Okay well we may as well clear off the things we were 
supposed to be discussing.”

Jonouchi nodded. “The next major thing was trade with China and Russia. 
Basically we were thinking about a trade agreement for Russia similar to the 
one we enjoy with China, we lower tariffs on Russian resources, oil, gas, 
minerals, we in exchange get lower tariffs from them on our consumer goods 
and vehicles and in both cases we would be looking at some co-operative 
efforts on technology development and manufacturing.”

Hiroshi nodded.

“Also we’d be looking for them to echo our emission’s standards for 
automobiles in the next decade, putting our cars ahead of the competition.”

“And making it cheaper for their domestic manufacturers to simply buy 
Japanese designs rather than re-design their own engines.”

Jonouchi nodded. “Exactly.”

Hiroshi hoped if this was successful his stock broker was savvy enough to 
invest in the motor companies.

“We have similar plans over all, for India.”
“And manpower?” asked Hiroshi.

“Minister Achiba is including both Russian and Chinese workers in our guest 
worker program.”

Hiroshi nodded.

“And South-East Asia?”

“We’re ready to offer Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore economic partnership 
agreements that would mirror the main points of our existing agreement with 
Indonesia (see sources). As well Inukai has said he’s ready to make the 
offer to them on the anti-piracy agreement.”

“What sort of level of commitment did he recommend?”

“We would essentially be building a unified anti-piracy command utilizing 
our surveillance satellites, AWACs and other surveillance craft to locate 
pirate bases and allow the local forces to deal with them.”

Hiroshi nodded. “Good, we’ll meet on this when Inukai is finished downstairs 
and we should be ready to propose these agreements in the next couple of 
days.”

Actions:

1>	Let Russia know what we’re thinking in the way of trade agreements, we’ll 
drop our tariffs on all that yummy Russian oil, coal, etc if you do the same 
on cars, finished steel products, chemicals and of course consumer 
electronics. Also hint at research and manufacturing co-operation.
2>	Let China know we’re ready to expand our previous agreement and would 
love to get into technology sharing and co-operation.
3>	Propose economic partnership agreements to Malaysia, Singapore and 
Thailand, with the same general points as the current one with Indonesia.
4>	Propose to the same three nations plus Indonesia the idea of forming a 
joint anti-piracy command to which Japan would bring its technological edge 
in surveillance to help them locate and eliminate piracy in the Straight of 
Malacaa.

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