Eric Takabayashi wrote:

> I am now watching News 23. There is some woman in the
> streets of Sapporo conducting a solo petition drive
> against the deployment of the SDF. It was at least minus
> two and snowing. Perhaps she was wearing a mini.

From memory Sapporo's official mini-skirt and fuckme-boots season isn't
launched until early February. Perhaps she is from out of town?

> He can refuse, or quit. Or disobey any order to deploy
> outright. People who don't want to get hurt or die, or
> their loved ones to get hurt or die, should reconsider
> such careers.

In the case of her boyfriend/husband/brother/whatever, there is a very
strong likelihood that *at the time of enlistment* it was explicitly
understood by all and sundry that service in the JSDF would not involve
deployment outside of Japan and/or its exclusion zone except for
training abroad or possibly (if he signed up within the last 10 years)
on UN blue helmet duties. Depending on the term of his current
enlistment, he may not yet have been given the opportunity to reconsider
his position now that the goal posts have been shifted.



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