Commentary: World auxiliary police, new role for Japan to meddle in global affairs

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama celebrated during their rendezvous at the White House that "Team America: World Police" now has a more loyal Japanese samurai to join the cast and meddle in global affairs.

According to the newly revised bilateral defense guidelines, Japan could deploy its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in remote areas worldwide by playing a more proactive role with loosened limits on the use of force to support U.S. military operations. The first revision in 18 years finally turns the SDF into "Japan's U.S.- Defense Forces."

Abe has wooed the United States for a long time since he reinterpreted the country's pacifist constitution last July and gave green light to the SDF to exercise the right to collective self-defense and the prime minister will soon revise a series of security-related laws in efforts to actuate its new role as soon as possible.

However, the new auxiliary police force was in character surprisingly quickly, even before the defense guidelines had been reviewed, in stepping into the Ukraine issue, which already messed up a planned visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan aimed at mending bilateral ties, and the South China Sea issue following the U.S. policy of "Pivot to Asia" that triggered harsh criticism from China.

Obviously, this is not the whole story and the details will be far more intricate and potentially damaging. What Japan will encounter after fully taking the new post are mires that still trap the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and next maybe turfs controlled by the Islamic State which already forced Japan to swallow a bitter lesson by making rash decisions under an international spotlight.

The world has been witnessing that Uncle Sam's intervention rarely brings about peace and stability. However, Japan's involvement will not only help its master fight even more bloody battles, but will escalate tensions in those regions as the samurai begins sharpening his old blood-stained sword.

The subtle situation in East Asia is of grave concern, as Japan keeps turning a blind eye to its past wrongdoings, and even worse, is attempting to deny and whitewash its wartime atrocities. It has yet to reconcile with its neighbors that suffered the insane barbarities due to these very reasons.

Abe said in Boston that he will redouble efforts to mend ties with China and South Korea, but his close political ally at home, Tomomi Inada, who also serves as policy chief of Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party paid homage to the war criminal-honoring Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan's militarism.

The prime minister claimed the Holocaust should be firmly remembered during his visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, but his administration is reluctant to admit the Nanjing Massacre by questioning the victim numbers.

Abe promised "Japan will lead the international community in eliminating sexual violence during conflicts," but his country was infamous for forcibly recruiting 200,000 women as sexual slaves during WWII, and he still, besides expressing his "heartache," avoided offering a heartfelt apology.

Abe vows to contribute to the world peace in a proactive manner, but what the hawkish leader has been doing is proactively pushing Japan into conflicts and troubling the region in a saber-rattling way.

Wars still remain on the globe seven decades after the end of the WWII. And therefore, the world really needs dialogue to make peace and does not expect the self-claimed world police and its newly-assigned auxiliary unit to raise more anxieties. Endi