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【Vladimir Putin】

《Posture confronting with America》

…that Russia received severe criticism from the human rights organization in Europe then, it’s ignoring the human rights and doing inhumane reacts, but as to the oppression against Chechen, Russia insisted it’s the fight against the terrorism, so joining force with America who fought with the terrorism, and Russia tried to escape from the trial, didn’t it?

Actually the American government tried to avoid interfering with the policy on Chechen by Russia after that, but some countries which used to be the part of Soviet or to be the…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The posture confronting with America》

…but some countries which used to be the part of Soviet Union and to be the satellite countries in Soviet tried to approach America, EU, and NATO which is the military alliance, Russia tried to prevent them from doing blatantly.

When America revealed the plan of deporting defending missile system against Iran in Czechoslovakia and Poland, Russia repelled against it violently, insisting that trying to attack Russia.

If being deported the defending missile system in Czechoslovak or in Poland, it’s possible to shoot down the missile…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The posture confronting with America》

…it’s possible to shoot down the missile from Iran, but at the same time, it’s also possible to do the missile from Russia to Europe as principle.

If being deported the defending system like that, effectiveness on attacking each country in Europe with the missile from Russia vanishes,

As being unable to use the threat, stop it! It’s the logic by Russia.

But the agreement on the defending missile system was signed up in 2008, though Obama became the President in the next year, and he looked back the plan, and deployment in Czecho…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《The posture confronting with America》

...and deployment in Czachor and in Poland was called off.

Russia which strengthens the posture confronting with America. It's taken action as if it dated back at the time of the Cold War between East and West. Russia permitted the patrol flight outside Russia by long range bomber started again in 2007.

Both of America and Russia made always bomber planes loaded nuclear missile which reached the capital of the enemy country fly overhead. If the nuclear missile flew over from the enemy country and the military facility on the land...

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【Vladmir Putin】

《Posture confronting with America》

...and the military facility on the land is destroyed, the bomber plane waiting for the sky can attack with the nuclear missile as revenge.

After Soviet collapsed, Russia lost the ability of maintaining the attack and its flight had never been done from 1992, but Russia has revived it. It turned out that Russia has never trusted America at all.

《Annexation Crimea Peninsula》

It was March in 2014 when all of us in the world have recognized again Russia was dangerous.

A political change broke out in Ukraine and the administration of pro...

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Annexation to the Crimea Peninsula》

...administration of pro Russia fell down and annexed the Crimea Peninsula belonged to Ukraine into Russia.

Crimea Peninsula used to belong to Russia. When both of Russia and Ukraine were the part of Soviet, there was none of problem.

After Soviet collapsed and Ukraine achieved its independence and the Crimea Peninsula was separated from Russia then, so Putin has taken into action in order to get back the Crimea Peninsula.

Crimea wasn't only the part of Ukraine but high altitude autonomy was permitted as autonomous country.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Annexation the Crimea Peninsula》

Making use of its authority and putting into the local referendum and approval of transferring into Russia was overwhelming, so the Crimea Peninsula was taken into Russia. It seemed that Russia insisted on it like that before, but before the local referendum, unknown military force oppressed the key spots and the local referendum was done with the background of the military power.

Putin insisted that the Russian military force didn't exist in Ukraine then, but in the next year he admitted twenty thousand of Russian soldiers were sent there

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Taking in the Crimea Peninsula》

Putin used to tell a lie calmly then.

The Russian military force supported the pro Russian military force in the east of Ukraine, and prevented Ukraine from joining in NATO as the whole nation. Putin tried not to defect some countries belonged to Soviet area to enemy countries.

《Using properly the soft way and hard way concerned the northern territories》

There has been the problem on the northern territories between Russia and Japan. Soviet occupied four islands in the northern areas in the mess at the end of the World War Ⅱ.

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Using the hard way and soft way concerning the problem on the northern territory》

After concluding the peace treaty in the Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration, Soviet permitted to get back two islands of 歯舞 and 色丹, but after that, the talk on the peace treaty doesn’t make progress, to make matters worse, as to the two other islands, Russia has never shown attitude to get back two of the Islands to Japan.

Adopting the word of draw, Putin showed his willingness to the solution on the problem in 2012. What does the word of draw mean?

There are four islands in question, so two…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Using the hard way and soft way concerning the problem on the northern territories》

…so Russia would get back two islands alone?

Japan requested Russia return four of the islands to Japan, and Putin admitted to return two islands, so adopting the one betweenJapan and Russia, that suggesting two of them return to the Japanese, various speculations flew over among children over the four of islands.

But after taking in the Crimea Peninsula into Russia’s territory, imposing economic economical sanctions, getting into step with America and European countries against with…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Using the hard way and soft way concerned the problem on returning the territories》

…getting into step with America and some countries in European against Russia, the talk on the northern territories don’t make progress between Japan and Russia.

《Trying to be Peter the Great in the modern era?》

Putin has looked up to Peter the Great and is said he decorates his office with the portrait of the Peter the Great.

Peter the Great is the first emperor in the Russian Empire, expanding its territory by war, so he was called Peter the Great. Establishing the hegemony in the vast…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Trying to be the Peter the Great in modern era?》

Establishing the hegemony in the vast area from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, and founded the navy. Putting Russian Orthodox Church under the control by the nation and controlling the immense power and founded the Russian Empire. All of the things were done by the Peter the Great. Glory for the Soviet Union again! for the Russian Empire again! Putin President must have had a dream like that, so he has to be a strong leader.

If being aware of the dream of Putin President, we can see which direction the Putin Government…

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【Vladimir Putin】

《Trying to be the Peter the Great in the modern era?》

…we can see which direction the Putin Government goes for, the direction on the policy by Russia.

On the other hand, the information which is hard to hear doesn’t reach the dictator. It has been shown through history all times and places. The more the tendency on the dictatorship by Putin moves on, the less we can see the weak point in the nation.

If all the things move as Putin said, without showing direction from Putin, no one tries to move. Various functions paralyze. It may have been one of shape on Russia in...

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【Vladimir Putin】

It may have been one of shape on Russia in the future.

No doubt that Putin is one of them who have moved the whole world, and he will do in the future as well, but historians may have made other assessment on him after ages.

【The second Iron woman, Angela Merkel】

Financial crisis in Greece reignited in 2015. The new political power in Greece founded the plan of calling off the austere fiscal policy, on the other hand, it requested to exempt and decrease debt against EU. The top levels on EU, especially Angela Merkel who was the Prime Minister in Germany confronted it…

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【The second iron woman, Angela Merkel】

Angela Merkel confronted against the request from Greece with a strong posture. Without responding to exempt and to decrease the debt, asking for going on the severe austere fiscal policy.

The new political power in Greece gave up his plan and was forced to go on the austere fiscal policy by law as EU requested. European media reported it’s a victory by Merkel.

Hiding budget deficit on Greece was brought to the light in 2009, and the problem causes a domino effect over Italy and Spain, and led to Euro crisis. If making effort on the austere fiscal…

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【The second iron woman, Angela Merkel】

If making effort on the austere fiscal policy, the aid will be done, which was the plan by EU led by Germany mainly, and the crisis was got over with the plan by EU. Merkel’s ability has been exhibited on the crisis in Ukraine as well.

Ukraine in Eastern Europe was divided into two. The one is the western area obeying EU, and the other is the eastern area obeying Russia, and the civil war continued in Ukraine.

Merkel pushed forward peace negotiations, Putin also joined in the negotiations, and she succeeded in the cease fire for the while.

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【Second iron woman, Angela Merkel】

Even if facing the crisis in Europe, it’s all right as long as there is Merkel there. The European seemed to think like that. The summit was held in Germany in 2015. When collecting the information, the author talked with an English journalist, and the journalist called Merkel the iron woman in the modern era.

Speaking of the iron woman, it‘s the appreciation on Thatcher who was the lady at president , and Merkel has been an outstanding woman since Thatcher, so the author chose her as the second giants who moved the whole world.

《Germany Empire…》

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【Angela Merkel】

《Germany Empire will destroy the world》

The sense of existence has heightened under Merkel both in the EU and in the world. A French scholar wrote the book of which title was the German Empire will destroy the whole world. He called to the French to notice something dangerous on Germany,

If there is a geopolitic lesson from the World War Ⅱ, France can’t control Germany. Not only Germany has high quality on its organization and economic rule, but has political irrational potential. We have to recognize it.

In general, the French don’t like the German, for they have been…

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【Angela Merkel 】

《German Empire will destroy the world》

…for the French has been often overwhelmed by the German power. When the author asked the French whether or not he disliked the German, unexpectedly the French answered he‘s evaluated the German highly.,

Whether we dislike the German or not, Germany has become so strong that some countries around Germany watch Germany are alert to again.

《An English Prime Minister who evaluated Merkel highly》

The French author doesn’t hide his alert to Germany, but there is an English statesman who admired Merkel. His name is Tony Blair who is the…

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【Angela Merkel】

《Germany Empire will destroy the world》

His name is Tony Blair who used to be the former English Prime Minister. When winning the election and Merkel took office as Prime Minister in Germany in 2005. Blair told his impression on Merkel then like the next.

I’ve learned to like her personally. In the beginning, she looked something shy and something distant, but there was something glittering which is issued from her to us at once. I thought she was honest and were compatible mutually.

After that immediately before he retired from the Prime Minister, he said like the next,.

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【Angela Merkel】

《German Empire will destroy the world》

She’s been the Prime Minister almost two years, and has been the existence which earned the sterile praise. I’ve learned to get along with her very much and am pleased with her.

She has been appreciated like that and was brought up in the former East Germany. She grew up in the country of socialism, but becomes the Prime Minister in the unified Germany. Why?

《Merkel who was raised in the former East Germany》

Merkel was born at Hamburg in the West Germany in 1954. Her father was a Polish pastor and her mother was a teacher who …

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【Angela Merkel】

《Merkel who was raised in the former East Germany》

…and her mother was a teacher who taught the English and the Latin.

After several weeks being born, her father left for his new post as pastor in the east Germany, so his family moved to the East Germany, so she grew up in the East Germany which was the socialism system.

The church to which her father belonged was regarded as progressive by the government in the East Germany, so its activity was permitted in the society, but the political party which had the most influential in the East German was hostile to the religion.

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【Angela Merkel】

《Merkel who was raised in the former East Germany》

As being based on Marxism and Leninism, so the political party was hostile to the religion. Her family background wasn’t blessed then. Her brother and two sisters were born there. Her father was strict and was enthusiastic about education, so her school record was outstanding, especially she was good at math and Russian language. The Russian language used to be compulsory in the East Germany then.

On the other hand she was poor at music and physical education. She seemed to be a brilliant person typically.

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【Angela Merkel】

《She chose the science course, what is called リケジョ》

Merkel entered then Karl Marx Leipzig University which was very prestigious and majored in physics. She was what we call リケジョ.

There was no information that she took into any political action until the East Germany collapsed, but she used to belong to the lower organization of the most main political party in the East Germany when she was a student, and the book which disclosed her past was published in 2013. She has been active as conservative statesman at present, but she used to take into action as communist in the past.

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【Angela Merkel】

《She chose the science course, what is called リケジョ》

She had a comment on her past that she had nothing to conceal. Though she has recognized the fact, she never fell into any political predicament due to her past, for every student who had a wonderful school record was invited to the lower organization so as to let the excellent student enter the lower organization. The excellent students had no choice to deny it then.

She got married to the student who was in the same faculty when being in university in 1977, but her married life didn’t go well very much, and after…

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【Angela Merkel】

《She chose a science course, what is called リケジョ》

…and after four years her married life failed and got divorced. Then her family name changed into Merkel, but it remained Merkel until now after get remarried.

She graduated from university with a wonderful school record in 1978, and began to work at the science academy in East Berlin and was engaged in the study of theoretical physics and got the doctor’s degree in in 1986. After that she met her present husband at the science academy and got remarried to him.

Her husband has supported Merkel’s political action, but he…

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【Angela Merkel】

《She chose a science course, what is called リケジョ》

…but her husband has hardly turned up in a formal situation.

The summit was held in Germany June in 2015 and Mr. and Mrs. Merkel greeted the leaders of each country. The author said he had met him for the first time then. If comparing with the wife, he is slender. He doesn’t seem to be a positive person so he hates to show up in a formal situation. It seems that Merkel owes her success to her better half. He has been the professor in Humboldt University at present.

《After the Berlin Wall collapse, her situation changed …》

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【Angela Merkel】

《After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, her situation changed abruptly…》

There had never been remarkable activity history as statesman for a while but her situation changed abruptly after the collapse of the Berlin Wal in 1989l. She started to take an interest in the political world and to join in the democratic movement then.

She resigned from the science academy and participated in the organization on the democratic movement which was born in the East Germany. It’s a kind of the political party. She was in charge of the public relations in the political party.

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【Angela Merkel】

《After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she joined in the political world》

After both of the East and West Germany were unified in 1990, the political party in which Merkel belonged to was absorbed in the Christian Democratic Union, and she also participated in it. She ran in the national election from the CDU and was elected then.

The CDU was based in the idea of the Christian democracy and made much of liberalism and market economy. It used to be the ruling party then. There is other large political party in Germany. It’s abbreviation is SPD. Both of the CDU and SPD…

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【Angela Merkel】

Both of the CDU and SPD formed the two great major in Germany.

《She used to be called the daughter of Cohl》

The leader in the CDU was Helmut Cohl who was the leader in the political party and was the prime minister in the Federal Government then. He thought highly of Merkel, though she was elected for the first time, she was selected to the Minister who was in charge of the problems on women and youth from other veteran members in the political party in the fourth Cohl Government.

She took office as other position of the Minister in the fifth Cohl Government in 1994.

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【Angela Merkel】

《She used to be called the daughter of Cohl》

Others used to call her the daughter of Cohl, for he really liked Merkel so much she could climb up in the political world, it’s a kind of jealousy or mocking.

The Cohl Government was beaten in the election of the Federal assembly in 1998, and the CDU changed to the opposition parry from the ruling party then, and Cohl took his responsibility and resigned from the leader of the political party. Merkel took office as Secretary General.

Though she used to be called the daughter of Cohl, we can get glimpse of the Iron Woman then…

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【Angela Merkel】

《She used to call the daughter of Merkel》

…for, she criticized Cohl who made her promote to the vital position.

Illegal donation revealed at the time of the Coal Government in 1991 and Merkel submitted her public letter to an influential newspaper, and criticized him in the letter. Even if being a benefactor, the one who is in the wrong is in the wrong. She’s inherited the strict nature from her father? She has never been the daughter of Cohl, she showed it by her own example.

In addition, the leader in CDU resigned due to the illegal donation in 2000, Merkel took office…

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【Angela Merkel】

《She used to be called the daughter of Cohl》

…Merkel took office as the leader in the political party. It was a marvelous decision by the members of the political party, for she was from the former East Germany, and was Protestant, woman, and got divorced and remarried.

Though she was filled with the negative elements as statesman from the common knowledge in the political world then, ordinary members in the CDU who were sick of the scandal chose Merkel by the precedence merit. In other words, she’s achieved her competence like that.

Thus she fought in the election of …

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【Angela Merkel】

Thus she learned to fight in the election on the National Assembly as the candidate of the Prime Minister in 2005.

CDU led by Merkel won the SPD in the election with by a hair, but the seat decreased drastically before the election, both of CDU and SPD didn’t reach the majority with other political party which had close opinions, so CDU decided the coalition’s government with SPD, and Merkel Government was born then. Though the Prime Minister was Merkel, half of the Cabinet Members were transferred to the SPD. Then the age of Merkel was fifty one. She is the youngest Prime…

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【Angela Merkel】

《Taking office as the Prime Minister in the coalition government》

She is the youngest Prime Minister in the successive generations.

To be exact, the coalition means that a political party which can’t reach the majority in itself and joining force with other political party and doing something.

On the other hand, the grand majority is two major political parties establish the government together. Then the number of the seat on the ruling party becomes overwhelmingly, and being able to manage the stable government is possible.

On the other hand, two of the political…

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【Angela Merkel】

《Taking office as Prime minister in the grand coalition》

On the other hand, the grand coalition is two other political parties which used to the rival each other try to manage government together. They are incompatible like oil and water, so their opinions confront so often that the political situation tends to be unstable.

But the Merkel Government developed positive diplomatic policy and got high approval rate on the support, especially suppressing unemployment, and realizing high economic growth rate and being able to support from lots of nations.

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【Angela Merkel】

《Taking office as Prime Minister in the grand coalition》

The thing on worthy of special mention on the diplomatic policy by Merkel is visiting Israel in 2008. No less than six million of Israeli were slaughtered by Nazi Germany in the middle of the World War Ⅱ, the Israeli has a strong feeling of disgust to Germany persistently after the War.

Merkel showed her apology and refection to the Israeli in German on the responsibility as the German by making speech at the assembly in Israel. Some of the Israel couldn’t stand to listen to the German language, so went out of the room

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【Angela Merkel】

Israel allowed Merkel to make a speech in German, it’s unusual. It means that Israel appreciated highly the way of facing to the past by Germany.

《Nuclear disaster in Fukushima prefecture has made Merkel abandon the nuclear power generation》

CDU led by Merkel won the general election in 2009, and the SPD which made the coalition government together was beaten then. Its number of seat decreased extremely. As a result, the political party to which she belonged made coalition government with other political party which is conservative and its thought resembles the CDU.

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the nuclear power generation》

The nuclear power disaster in Fukushima prefecture in 2011 which Merkel changed her economic policy drastically.

The Schlader Government formed in 1998 joined force with other political party then, and propelled the policy of abandoning the nuclear power generation. In 2002 it started a plan of doing away with all the nuclear power generation under operation until 2021.

Merkel who came into the power in 2005 tried to propel the nuclear power generation, as it was the coalition government…

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the nuclear power generation》

…as it was the coalition government with Schlader Government, so she couldn’t change the policy on the atomic power generation then, but the coalition government was done with the FDP which was the conservative group in the election in 2009, she changed the policy in the government into propelling atomic power generation then.

The number on the operation of the nuclear power plant was 17 in Germany in the long energy strategy in 2010. Merkel extended its term to 12 years in average.

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the nuclear power generation》

Even if changing into renewable energy mainly in the future, she thought the atomic power energy was indispensable as energy in the tradition period until then.

But when the nuclear disaster broke out in Japan, after only four days she activated the moratorium on the atomic energy for three months.

Seven atomic reactors had operated for 31 years in Germany, but ordered to stop them at once and to carry out an emergency test on the rest of the atomic reactors. Whether or not they …

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the nuclear power generation》

Whether or not the rest of the nuclear reactors could endure unusual situation like flood or blackout.

In spite that the nuclear power disaster broke out in Japan, when Japanese government was at a loss what to do on the policy of the atomic power generation, Germany abandoned it right away.

It was the movement on the public opinion of anti atomic energy generation in Germany which backed up the judgement by Merkel. After two weeks from the nuclear power disaster in Japan, the Green…

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the nuclear power generation》

…the Green Political Party appealed to abandon the atomic power generation at the election in the state assembly in the South Germany and leaped ahead. Pushing aside the chief minister in the state who pushed forward the atomic power generation from the CDU and made the coalition government with SPD which also appealed to abandon the atomic power generation, and the one who was from the Green Political Party won the position on the chief minister in the state then.

Merkel must have…

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the atomic power generation》

Merkel must have been shocked at it, for she has been quick to seize an opportunity and survived the political world and judged that the Germany nation asked to abandon the atomic power generation, and thought her judgement was in the wrong in the past, so she took command to abandon the atomic power generation.

She made clear the plan that all of the 17 atomic reactors would be close until 2022 in 2011. Immediate after, she made a speech at the federal assembly and said like the next.

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the atomic power generation》

The nuclear disaster in Fukushima was the violent shock for the whole world, and it also gave me a strong impact individually. The first atomic power plant in Fukushima was attacked by flood and the Japanese poured into the salty water into the atomic reactor and cool it so as to prevent the situation from getting worse.

When hearing it, I understand that the country which had high level of technical skill like Japan can’t control the risk on the atomic power safely.

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the atomic power generation》

Merkel continued.

There is one thing which I want to emphasize. I extended the period on the operation of the atomic reactor in the long energetic strategy, but I’m going to say clearly here, at the federal assembly, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima has made my attitude change to the atomic power.

The statesman, the prime minister said her thought was in the wrong in the official place. How frank she was! The author said like that.

We can see her confidence and reverence to the …

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the atomic power generation》

We can see her confidence and reverence to the standard of technical skill on Japan in her remark. If Japan doesn’t go well, the others won’t. It’s the judgement by Merkel. Not only her remark embarrassed us but makes us to be disappointed that there is no consensus on the energy policy in Japan, the author said like that.

She showed her high evaluation to Japan after that. She came to Japan in 2015 and held a lecture meeting then and was asked on the policy of atomic power generation.

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the atomic power generation》

Merkel answered on the decision then like the next.

It was the nuclear power disaster in Fukushima which has change my thought, for the disaster broke out in Japan which has the standard of high technical skill. It showed us vividly that there is some risk and the disaster will break out even in the country like Japan, so I can understand there is the risk which we can’t foresee, and there is the risk which we can’t expect.

Therefore I made up my mind to abandon the atomic power…

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the atomic power generation》

Therefore I made up my mind to abandon the atomic power generation with my male colleagues in the political power then. The last atomic power plant would stop in Germany in 2023, and the time when making use of peaceful nuclear power comes to an end then and we’ll build other energy system. My decision is like that. She said.

It is in 2023 at present. What’s happened to the atomic power plant in Germany?

At the time of East Germany, Merkel didn’t do any remarkable political activity.

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【Angela Merkel】

《Nuclear power disaster in Fukushima has made Merkel abandon the atomic power generation》

And she obeyed the policy from the authority, but once the society moved to democracy, she started the democratic movement at once and became the member of the ruling party in the unified Germany. Though she was selected from Cohl the Prime Minister, once the suspicion on the secret donation happened to her benefactor she abandoned him immediately. She has been very quick to seize the opportunity. Does she has a political skill like a weather vane? It seems that we see Merkel at her best

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