Now, as long as Kono participates in the House of Representatives' political ethics review meeting, he must make a choice in the next step. Taku Yamazaki continued, "Or, launch a large-scale investigation into the scandal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or choose to resign himself."
The so-called political ethics review meeting is actually a department that is specifically responsible for repeated work. This department is composed of members of the House of Representatives. They do not have the power to review corruption in a certain or department. It is a hearing.
Take the recent scandals of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an example. This department can ask Yohei Kono, who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to attend the meeting. Of course, Yohei Kono can choose not to go, but that will make a big fuss because the House of Representatives will immediately impeach him.
But if he chooses to go, he has to explain many issues at the meeting. In addition to the specific details of the previous scandals, there is also what he is going to do to prevent such things from happening again. He even needs to make a promise, how long will he achieve what goals he will achieve, etc.
Politicians can make a promise in public and then fulfill it in the future without any matter, but it is not possible to write a blank check at such hearings. This is like a military order. If you cannot fulfill the promise after it is made, you will be kicked out of office and the consequences are very serious.
Therefore, once Kono Yohei attends such a hearing, he must make a promise: to conduct an in-depth inspection of the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs system.
If he doesn't make this promise and chooses to be deaf and dumb, then there will be a good show. The frequent scandals that have occurred recently will be kicked out one by one.
If he has one or two episodes, he can choose to apologize. It can be said that he has just taken office as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Those corruption issues have nothing to do with him, but after three or four episodes, or even five or six episodes, such excuses cannot be used. People will say: Since you are the Minister of Foreign Affairs and have exposed so many scandals recently, why don’t you conduct self-inspection in the system?
Why not ask the Procuratorate to intervene in the investigation?
Who are you covering up?
So, this is a road without choice, and Yohei Kono must follow the direction designated by others
What is Mr. Kamei's position on this matter? Miyashita Kita thought for a while and asked
There is no position, Yamazaki Taku smiled, but Kamei has made arrangements in the Procuratorate. If Kono takes action, the Procuratorate will intervene quickly. No matter what the result, we can get enough benefits from it. If Kono chooses to remain indifferent, then there will naturally be people who will criticize him. Haha, without a general like Kono, Hirochi will also suffer a huge blow, which is also beneficial to us.
Miyashita nodded. Kono Yohei was a capable general of the Hirochi Society and a person Kiichi Miyazawa trusted. To be precise, it was not the same camp as the Kamei Sect.
If his political life is over, it will naturally be a big blow to Hirochihui, but it will be more beneficial to the Kamei faction.
From another perspective, although Kamei's control over the Procuratorate is not as good as the Police Department and the Police Department, he is also very influential in the Procuratorate system.
At this time, once Kono Yohei is determined to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs system, it will naturally be time for the Procuratorate to show its strength and make a big move.
Considering more deeply, Kamei can even take advantage of this opportunity to deploy his own power in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
So, behind every political turbulent farce, there will always be someone who will fuel the fire, and there will also be some people who will take advantage of the situation. Of course, there will also be some people who will lose blood in the process. The only difference is who will fall into the pit and who will stand outside the pit.
Since the whole thing has nothing to do with you, Miyashita asked, "Why do you need to hide here?"
Well... Yamazaki Taku hesitated for a moment, then picked up the wine glass in front of him, drank the rice wine in the glass, and then said, "Do you know the bath therapy investment project that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has carried out in the South Kuril Islands?"
Miyashita nodded. The project that Takuya Yamazaki mentioned began three years ago. At that time, the Japanese government took advantage of the instability of Russia's domestic political situation and economic decline, and launched a series of negotiations with the Yeltsin government on the ownership of the Southern Kuril Islands, that is, the four northern islands.
To be honest, in the years when Yeltsin was in power in Russia, Japan has been taking back the four northern islands in the recent period. In exchange for economic aid and investment from Japan, Moscow made great concessions on the ownership of the four northern islands. Yeltsin even considered handing over two of the four islands to Japan, and the remaining two issues were temporarily put on hold.
But the Japanese government's ambition is to take back all four islands, rather than just two. As the saying goes: if he takes his life while he is sick, if he doesn't take back all four islands at this time, after Russia's dilemma is over, it will be completely impossible for them to get the island back again.
Unfortunately, as the content of the negotiations between the two sides was exposed by the Russian military, which was greatly dissatisfied, a series of demonstrations broke out in Russia, which ultimately forced the Yeltsin government to change its words.
In the past two years, due to the outbreak of the Chechen War, Moscow was not in the mood to pay attention to the issues of the four northern islands again, so the negotiations were put on hold indefinitely
However, although the issue of the ownership of the island has not been discussed, Moscow has opened up a hole in Japan, that is, to allow Japan to carry out some investment projects on the four northern islands, such as the bath therapy resort project on Sedan Island.
Considering the difficulty in reality, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also begun to change its thinking. They decided to use investment to penetrate the four northern islands. To put it bluntly, it is to use the economy to influence the ownership of sovereignty.
In order to achieve this goal, in the past two years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken the lead in launching a considerable investment project in Setan Island, which is what Taku Yamazaki mentioned.
Of course, as a reborn person, Kita Kita knew very well that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had no effect on this thing, because as president, Yeltsin could still serve the previous term in Russia, and during this term, this guy also began to change in foreign relations, from being a blindly pro-American and pro-Western to starting a confrontation in the West, of course, this was not what he wanted, but was forced by the situation.
In the next four years, Russia will have a long winter. As the domestic economic environment further deteriorates, the discussion on institutional issues will become more complicated. The people began to miss the life of the old Soviet era, Moscow's control over the local area further weakened, and the army began to become impetuous.
All of this forced Yeltsin to show a tough attitude to the outside world to create an atmosphere where Russia is still a world power, and to use its tough attitude to the outside world to divert domestic conflicts.
In this way, the four northern islands between Japan and Russia are basically out of the question, and in Putin's era... there was no drama at all.
Although Putin and Abe met in Singapore in 2018 and re-discussed the issue of Russia transferring two islands to Japan, it is certain that Russia at that time was just a short promise to sow Japan-US relations. In essence, as long as the confrontation between Russia and the United States exists and the Japan-US alliance exists, the ownership of the four northern islands will not change.
Where is the four northern islands? Once Japan takes back these four islands and turns around, the Americans have established military bases on the four islands, how much pressure will Russia's Far East bear?
The most important thing is that in the memory of Miyashita Kita, as soon as Putin came to power in 2000, he tore up all the agreements reached between the Yeltsin government and Japan on the issue of the four northern islands. He forcibly took away all the projects that Japan invested and built on the island over the years on the grounds that it would establish military facilities on Setan Island. Tokyo ended up losing all its money.
What's wrong with those projects? What does it have to do with you? Miyashita Kita asked curiously
A familiar friend participated in these projects. Taku Yamazaki lowered his voice and said, "I have received some benefits. I am worried that once the Procuratorate takes action, that friend will ask me for mercy. You know, it is difficult to refuse Ah in this kind of thing, but Kazui will definitely not allow me to intervene. In order to avoid both sides of the situation, I can only come out and hide for a while.
Miyashita Kita nodded, which was a bit funny. Yamazaki Taku's status in the Liberal Democratic Party is actually not much worse than Shizuka Kamei, but he had an indescribable fear of Kamei.
Of course, this is not difficult to understand. After all, when something happened to him, Kamei saved him.
Is there anything I need to help? Miyashita Kita hesitated for a moment, and finally asked this question that he didn't want very much
This kind of thing is too obvious. Taku Yamazaki said he was coming to avoid the limelight, but he always pestered him. After all, it wasn't just for him to do something
If you can, it is of course the best. Sure enough, Taku Yamazaki said, My friend is actually very good. Although he has taken a lot of benefits in those projects, he has never embezzled them. There are not many people who have benefited him. So, if you can help, it is best to arrange someone to send him out of Japan, at least not let him fall into the hands of the Procuratorate.
There is no need to be so cautious, right?
Miyashita Kitani understood what he meant. To put it bluntly, Taku Yamazaki just hoped that guy would disappear. Obviously, he took a lot of benefits from others. I also have some connections in the Procuratorate, as long as...
This was proposed by my friend himself. Before he could finish his words, Taku Yamazaki said first. He also said that if he could not leave Japan, many people would be affected.
The so-called political ethics review meeting is actually a department that is specifically responsible for repeated work. This department is composed of members of the House of Representatives. They do not have the power to review corruption in a certain or department. It is a hearing.
Take the recent scandals of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an example. This department can ask Yohei Kono, who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to attend the meeting. Of course, Yohei Kono can choose not to go, but that will make a big fuss because the House of Representatives will immediately impeach him.
But if he chooses to go, he has to explain many issues at the meeting. In addition to the specific details of the previous scandals, there is also what he is going to do to prevent such things from happening again. He even needs to make a promise, how long will he achieve what goals he will achieve, etc.
Politicians can make a promise in public and then fulfill it in the future without any matter, but it is not possible to write a blank check at such hearings. This is like a military order. If you cannot fulfill the promise after it is made, you will be kicked out of office and the consequences are very serious.
Therefore, once Kono Yohei attends such a hearing, he must make a promise: to conduct an in-depth inspection of the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs system.
If he doesn't make this promise and chooses to be deaf and dumb, then there will be a good show. The frequent scandals that have occurred recently will be kicked out one by one.
If he has one or two episodes, he can choose to apologize. It can be said that he has just taken office as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Those corruption issues have nothing to do with him, but after three or four episodes, or even five or six episodes, such excuses cannot be used. People will say: Since you are the Minister of Foreign Affairs and have exposed so many scandals recently, why don’t you conduct self-inspection in the system?
Why not ask the Procuratorate to intervene in the investigation?
Who are you covering up?
So, this is a road without choice, and Yohei Kono must follow the direction designated by others
What is Mr. Kamei's position on this matter? Miyashita Kita thought for a while and asked
There is no position, Yamazaki Taku smiled, but Kamei has made arrangements in the Procuratorate. If Kono takes action, the Procuratorate will intervene quickly. No matter what the result, we can get enough benefits from it. If Kono chooses to remain indifferent, then there will naturally be people who will criticize him. Haha, without a general like Kono, Hirochi will also suffer a huge blow, which is also beneficial to us.
Miyashita nodded. Kono Yohei was a capable general of the Hirochi Society and a person Kiichi Miyazawa trusted. To be precise, it was not the same camp as the Kamei Sect.
If his political life is over, it will naturally be a big blow to Hirochihui, but it will be more beneficial to the Kamei faction.
From another perspective, although Kamei's control over the Procuratorate is not as good as the Police Department and the Police Department, he is also very influential in the Procuratorate system.
At this time, once Kono Yohei is determined to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs system, it will naturally be time for the Procuratorate to show its strength and make a big move.
Considering more deeply, Kamei can even take advantage of this opportunity to deploy his own power in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
So, behind every political turbulent farce, there will always be someone who will fuel the fire, and there will also be some people who will take advantage of the situation. Of course, there will also be some people who will lose blood in the process. The only difference is who will fall into the pit and who will stand outside the pit.
Since the whole thing has nothing to do with you, Miyashita asked, "Why do you need to hide here?"
Well... Yamazaki Taku hesitated for a moment, then picked up the wine glass in front of him, drank the rice wine in the glass, and then said, "Do you know the bath therapy investment project that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has carried out in the South Kuril Islands?"
Miyashita nodded. The project that Takuya Yamazaki mentioned began three years ago. At that time, the Japanese government took advantage of the instability of Russia's domestic political situation and economic decline, and launched a series of negotiations with the Yeltsin government on the ownership of the Southern Kuril Islands, that is, the four northern islands.
To be honest, in the years when Yeltsin was in power in Russia, Japan has been taking back the four northern islands in the recent period. In exchange for economic aid and investment from Japan, Moscow made great concessions on the ownership of the four northern islands. Yeltsin even considered handing over two of the four islands to Japan, and the remaining two issues were temporarily put on hold.
But the Japanese government's ambition is to take back all four islands, rather than just two. As the saying goes: if he takes his life while he is sick, if he doesn't take back all four islands at this time, after Russia's dilemma is over, it will be completely impossible for them to get the island back again.
Unfortunately, as the content of the negotiations between the two sides was exposed by the Russian military, which was greatly dissatisfied, a series of demonstrations broke out in Russia, which ultimately forced the Yeltsin government to change its words.
In the past two years, due to the outbreak of the Chechen War, Moscow was not in the mood to pay attention to the issues of the four northern islands again, so the negotiations were put on hold indefinitely
However, although the issue of the ownership of the island has not been discussed, Moscow has opened up a hole in Japan, that is, to allow Japan to carry out some investment projects on the four northern islands, such as the bath therapy resort project on Sedan Island.
Considering the difficulty in reality, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also begun to change its thinking. They decided to use investment to penetrate the four northern islands. To put it bluntly, it is to use the economy to influence the ownership of sovereignty.
In order to achieve this goal, in the past two years, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken the lead in launching a considerable investment project in Setan Island, which is what Taku Yamazaki mentioned.
Of course, as a reborn person, Kita Kita knew very well that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had no effect on this thing, because as president, Yeltsin could still serve the previous term in Russia, and during this term, this guy also began to change in foreign relations, from being a blindly pro-American and pro-Western to starting a confrontation in the West, of course, this was not what he wanted, but was forced by the situation.
In the next four years, Russia will have a long winter. As the domestic economic environment further deteriorates, the discussion on institutional issues will become more complicated. The people began to miss the life of the old Soviet era, Moscow's control over the local area further weakened, and the army began to become impetuous.
All of this forced Yeltsin to show a tough attitude to the outside world to create an atmosphere where Russia is still a world power, and to use its tough attitude to the outside world to divert domestic conflicts.
In this way, the four northern islands between Japan and Russia are basically out of the question, and in Putin's era... there was no drama at all.
Although Putin and Abe met in Singapore in 2018 and re-discussed the issue of Russia transferring two islands to Japan, it is certain that Russia at that time was just a short promise to sow Japan-US relations. In essence, as long as the confrontation between Russia and the United States exists and the Japan-US alliance exists, the ownership of the four northern islands will not change.
Where is the four northern islands? Once Japan takes back these four islands and turns around, the Americans have established military bases on the four islands, how much pressure will Russia's Far East bear?
The most important thing is that in the memory of Miyashita Kita, as soon as Putin came to power in 2000, he tore up all the agreements reached between the Yeltsin government and Japan on the issue of the four northern islands. He forcibly took away all the projects that Japan invested and built on the island over the years on the grounds that it would establish military facilities on Setan Island. Tokyo ended up losing all its money.
What's wrong with those projects? What does it have to do with you? Miyashita Kita asked curiously
A familiar friend participated in these projects. Taku Yamazaki lowered his voice and said, "I have received some benefits. I am worried that once the Procuratorate takes action, that friend will ask me for mercy. You know, it is difficult to refuse Ah in this kind of thing, but Kazui will definitely not allow me to intervene. In order to avoid both sides of the situation, I can only come out and hide for a while.
Miyashita Kita nodded, which was a bit funny. Yamazaki Taku's status in the Liberal Democratic Party is actually not much worse than Shizuka Kamei, but he had an indescribable fear of Kamei.
Of course, this is not difficult to understand. After all, when something happened to him, Kamei saved him.
Is there anything I need to help? Miyashita Kita hesitated for a moment, and finally asked this question that he didn't want very much
This kind of thing is too obvious. Taku Yamazaki said he was coming to avoid the limelight, but he always pestered him. After all, it wasn't just for him to do something
If you can, it is of course the best. Sure enough, Taku Yamazaki said, My friend is actually very good. Although he has taken a lot of benefits in those projects, he has never embezzled them. There are not many people who have benefited him. So, if you can help, it is best to arrange someone to send him out of Japan, at least not let him fall into the hands of the Procuratorate.
There is no need to be so cautious, right?
Miyashita Kitani understood what he meant. To put it bluntly, Taku Yamazaki just hoped that guy would disappear. Obviously, he took a lot of benefits from others. I also have some connections in the Procuratorate, as long as...
This was proposed by my friend himself. Before he could finish his words, Taku Yamazaki said first. He also said that if he could not leave Japan, many people would be affected.
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