“Hokkaido Defense” from the perspective of joining NATO in two Scandinavian countries
Sweden, which has abandoned its 200-year neutrality policy since the Napoleonic Wars, in the context of 2022 when the Nobel Peace Prize lost its military neutrality.https://jbpress.ismedia.jp/articles/-/70238I thought about joining NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) of two Scandinavian countries.
This time I will focus on Finland.
previous draft (https://jbpress.ismedia.jp/articles/-/70188As mentioned in), Finland came under the control of the Russian Empire from the Swedish province, in the form of a secret agreement with Russia, so to speak, “selling” Napoleon Bonaparte himself.
The fate of the homeland was influenced by the speculation between the great powers and the adjustment of interests.
However, Finns have a strong pride that they have never suffered a military defeat in Russia / Soviet Union, said Tatsuo Kitagawa, a former secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Helsinki and a diplomat OB. Professor of Seisa University emphasizes.
finLand isHanLike Garry and EstoniaHungA descendant of the tribe, a horse-riding race from Asia, a proud race full of independence and pride.
Professor Kitagawa mentioned above is a childhood friend for me and is a junior in the second grade, but both Helsinki and Tallinn have been working locally for a long time. I spent the time in the field.
He speaks the local language and is an outstanding pianist, so he has a career that cannot be helped by supporting diplomacy with the piano, such as accompaniment to top musicians and VIP songs from all over the world.
If you want to attract us to our livelihood and music work, you probably know the composer Sibelius’s patriotic symphonic poem “Finlandia”.
Like Franz Liszt and Bella Bartok in Hungary, they have a strong national character with a strong nose, and I have a long-standing relationship with Finland, but the more I get along with them, the more I feel it.
Japan has traditionally tended to downplay such Finland.
For example, when I was a teenager, there was a former Prime Minister named Yasuhiro Nakasone who said, “Japan will become an unsinkable aircraft carrier and support the US strategy toward the Soviet Union,” like President Ronald Reagan’s waistcoat.
As a high school student at the time, I said terrible things, pointing to Finland’s “pro-Soviet policy”, which has consistently refrained from entering NATO due to Soviet policy. I have a memory that I was surprised when it was a thing.
The level of diplomatic common sense of the Japanese government and the Japanese media in the 2010s has declined to the extent that Nakasone’s remarks in his 90s seem to be sensible. Let’s see an example.