Regarding the May 21 front-page article "Up defense spending, Schieffer tells Tokyo": U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer's complaint about Japan's military spending amounts to blatant interference in Japan's internal affairs. More than 60 years after the end of the war, Schieffer is still not free from the notion of occupied Japan. He apparently regards Japan as America's client state that should be at its beck and call.
I would like to suggest that he peruse Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's "The Three Trillion Dollar War." Stiglitz points out that 40 percent of U.S. war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan is financed by borrowing from foreign countries including Japan.
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