Yes, Abe is provocative. Yes, he is anti-democratic. But that is no excuse for Seoul’s constant harping on everything past, present, and future and for Korean politicians’ using Japan as their proxy voodoo doll in attacking President Park.
When the Abe Cabinet adopted a policy of allowing what is called collective self-defense — which means the Japanese military wants to have boots on the ground and blood in the soil overseas like all the other big kids — it was widely and strongly protested throughout Japan. The Komei people staged a kabuki show of hedging this policy switch with all manner of meaningless safeguards, but it is still opposed by well over half of the voters. “If the government is going to kill Article 9’s renunciation of war,” these people argue, “they should be up-front about it, including a proposal to amend the Constitution.” Instead, Abe has chosen a back-door route to his ends. (Of course, if the policy can be changed once by Cabinet decree, it could presumably be changed back by a future Cabinet — except that the next step in Abe’s agenda is to enact all kinds of enabling legislation in the Diet to build momentum before national elections have to be held.
Anyway, the South Korean parliament has apparently passed a motion condemning this Abe-Cabinet move and calling on the Seoul government to protest in strongest terms. Thus putting Park on the spot. Is this fait accompli worth spending diplomatic capital on? Having already protested Japan this, Japan that, and all manner of other things, Seoul does not have a lot left. (One wonders what Beijing’s reaction would be if the Diet in Tokyo passed a resolution condemning this or that decision by the Chinese powers that be. Probably a heated suggestion that Tokyo should mind its own business and not interfere in Chinese domestic affairs. Tokyo can’t do the same thing?) So the Korean government will likely issue a pro forma protest, the Japanese government will be pro forma shocked and disappointed, and everyone will move on to the next distraction.
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In a related move, the Japanese Embassy planned to hold a reception at a fancy Seoul hotel (Lotte) ostensibly to commemorate the anniversary of the Self-Defense Forces’ founding. But amid protests, the Lotte decided to cancel the Embassy’s contract for the room and services. Apparently the same kind of reception was not a problem last year, but this year the Lotte was worried about unfavorable publicity and possible anti-Japanese demonstrations. So it revoked the contract.
Some years ago, a resort hotel in Japan was scheduled as the site of a teachers’ union convention, was scared at the prospect of unruly right-wing demonstrators, and similarly pulled the plug on the teachers’ union. The union promptly took the hotel to court and won. I wonder what the Korean laws are like in this area.