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Thanks to its post-World War II pacifist constitution, Japan has no missiles to waggle in the face of North Korea. Picture them as two kids waving their dicks at each other, and Japan is pissed because it has no dick. It got Sony, Mitsubishi, Honda, and walking robots, but it doesn’t have anything like Taepodongs. Who wouldn’t fume at that?

So what Japan does is do a Dirty Harry: Go ahead, punk, make my day, and all that sort of tough talk. And who knows, maybe in the dead of night they’ve also been busy improvising their own “missiles”: trebuchets loaded with vats of wasabi sauce to hurl at the North. Hah! Let’s see who cries this time.

IN JAPAN, TOUGH TALK ABOUT PREEMPTIVE CAPABILITY [Washington Post]

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