I wrote a map of the Korean Peninsula by myself for the first time in my column series last but one, and I was quite surprised.

" is really a troublesome place isn't it ?"

China on the top, Russia on the upper right, American military allies (South Korea + Japan) beneath.

"What is on earth this annoying place with feeling to suffocate ?"

I quickly bought and read a book called "Geography in manga".

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I realized "I got to study so much." after a long absence

Three basic principles of geopolitics.

(1) The ultimate goal of the state is "survival"

(2) Neighboring countries surely confront each other

(3) The enemies' enemies are ally

It is far easier to understand than Asimov's robot 3 principle. In this book, many use-case in the world are introduced, and I understood the behavioral principles of each country.

In particular, I feel like I understood well the behavioral principle of the peninsular state (north and south) near Japan.

People who are irritated with neighborhood behavior, may make their feelings easier, to know the fact that "there are no neighbor countries that are not fighting in the world".

So, with a step back, it might be good for our "Mental hygiene" To see the world from "Geopolitics" ---- No matter regardless of study or knowledge acquisition, etc.

For me,

I love the web site of "contemporary history with stand-up reading"

If the contents are published as a book, I will give an order at the head.

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I fell strange, why MEXT doesn't make "geopolitics" an essential subject of compulsory education.

I think that making the very beginning of history textbooks an item of "modern history" and its content may be "Geopolitical".

So, I want to think a following distraction from here,

If we citizens, can understand "Geopolitics", we can reasonably analyze the international situation, and for the politicians, it might be difficult to operate the politics using the negative emotions and passion of our citizens.

Especially if they do not settle the confrontation relationship with neighboring countries and the alliance with the far country, their elections are also hard to fight, and the revision of the law, which is the highest norm of the nation, becomes very difficult.

"It is good to keep the people stupid" is a usual means of the ancestor all ages and countries.it may be an ordinary story normally, although it may not be a disturbance.

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Indeed, we were also considering these before more than 20 years.

In order to stop the economic development of the neighboring country in the continent, we had reached the conclusion,

"To interfere with the educational system of the neighbor country, and disturb to teach differential or integration"

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By the way, there were such stupid stuff in Japan too.

The pathetic stupid writer couple, said that "Quadratic equations don't work at all in our society, we should expel such study", and they made a tremendous contribution to the country's declining national strength,