Gen Nakatani
Member, House of Representatives
Gen Nakatani, of the Liberal Democratic Party, is the former director general of the Japanese Defense Agency. He was first elected to the Japanese House of Representatives in 1990. He served in the Ground Self-Defense Force from 1980 to 1984. The following is excerpted from a roundtable discussion for Sapio magazine on June 11, 2003. The Iraq war is an easy-to-understand example that demonstrated America’s military power in a very forceful way. In the three-way talks this time among the United States, China, and North Korea, the United States and North Korea are developing their respective diplomacies backed by military…
