20 September 2015 (00:36 UTC-07 Tango 01)/29 Shahrivar 1394/06 Dhu l-Hijja 1436/08 Yi-You (8th month) 4713

Not even 48 hours after adopting a law that allows unilateral military action around the world and the Japanese neo-imperialist National Diet is now considering sending combat troops to oil rich South Sudan!

Currently Japan has military engineering units in South Sudan as part of a UN ‘peacekeeping’ mission (aka UNMISS).  That mission ends in December and the neo-imperialists want combat troops to be sent in.

Japan was originally asked by Republic of Korea to join them in South Sudan, and supply the South Korean troops with 5.56mm (.223 caliber) assault rifle ammo.   Apparently the ammo supply mission ended in January 2014, but the Japanese remained in South Sudan to carry “…out the development of the grounds, the restoration of roads and other activities.”

Supposedly the first action of the Japanese combat troops in South Sudan is to conduct a mock rescue of Japanese nationals being held hostage.

In 2011 Japan was the third largest buyer of oil from South Sudan, after Malaysia and China.  In 2010, Toyota said it was going to spend $1.5-billion USD building a pipeline through South Sudan.

“Since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in March 2011 prompted a rapid drop in desire to rely on nuclear energy, Japan’s demand for oil has quadrupled.

It is especially interested in South Sudan’s low-sulfur fuel oil (LSFO). Since South Sudan is Japan’s second-largest supplier of LSFO, during the Sudanese oil shutdown, Japan’s power utilities were forced to pay a premium in order to obtain LSFO from other sources.”

Saber Rattling against China about territorial claims? It’s about the huge oil reserves right underneath China! 

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