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Tea Party Campaign of Japan

May 16, 2010 | Tokyo, Japan | Vetting explained

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This is the first nationwide Tea Party movement to protest against the new government of Japans Democrats in response to the shift from an American-centered policy to a more China-focused policy, more specifically the relocation of the American Marine Corps air base from Okinawa.

 

Happiness Realization Party is willing to support this grass roots campaign and conservative movement by joining the demonstration that started at Hibiya Park in Tokyo to the National Diet on May 11 @ 1:00 pm in Japan. In spite  of  rain, more than  3000 people participated in this demonstration.

 

Yukio Hatoyama, Japanese prime minister, representing the policies of the Democrats of Japan, wants to change Japan’s foreign policy from focusing on the US-Japan alliance to a more Asian-focused policy, especially with China. While the US-Japan alliance is celebrating its 50 year anniversary of the security treaty this year, Hatoyama is re-examining its ties with the United States. He ended an eight year refueling mission in Afghanistan and Hatoyama is trying to relocate the US Marine Air Base from Futemna out of Okinawa, or Japan.

As a movement has been rising among the people in Japan to demand the resignation of the Hatoyama Cabinet, we did a live broadcast using USTREAM in order to report the actual events which are occurring in Japan to people throughout the world. And the most  viewers ranking by the live broadcast in USTREAM was the second place of  the world.

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