Anti-terrorism training shows for the Japaness press
February 22nd, 2009 by James
First, some clips from a police anti-terrorism exercise held at Tachikawa Station in Tokyo the other day:
Do you have confidence that Japanese police are adequately prepared to deal with international terrorists?
And next, a couple clips from the Maritime Self-Defense Forces’ anti-piracy exercise:
Do you think the MSDF is ready to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden?
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We may finally be able to solve the Ninjas vs. Pirates debate once and for all!
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The dog did a better job than any of the police officers
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The first clips were very funny. Nothing like scaring the Japanese public into thinking there is some huge terror threat. I loved it when the dog almost knocked over the ‘bomb’.
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I’m guessing this was meant to show how the police and MSDF are prepared and to calm any fears of uncertainty … but I’m more afraid now than before.
So they know how to deal with “terrorists” who phone in advance, operate alone, and carry maybe a cheap handgun. Great.
So they know how to fire off warning flares against “pirates”, hover nearby in helicopters, yell at them, and line up in front of them. Great.
And?
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How japan can go against terrorism. They can’t even cease one person from stabbing in akihabara or nude british who tried to climb over the castle. I don’t believe Jp is ready for this
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Excellent. So law enforcement in Japan is prepared to deal with a single man with a pistol… or not, considering the recent Akihabara attacks that left how many people dead? And the perpetrator didn’t even have a gun. Now apply a situation like the one that recently occurred in Mumbai — a coordinated effort by criminals with significant firepower and resources — and God only knows what kind of hell would break loose.
I understand that preparing for large-scale incidents is difficult, but these exercises are just ludicrous.
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These exercizes look more like high school skits, displays of posterity than real-life examples.
It really shows that Japan has the most experience in dealing with Japanese terrorists against their own country, not International terrorists.
And aren’t Japanese destroyers NOT ALLOWED to assist other ships if they’re a certain distance away?
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There are certain number of people who mention about Akihabara incident whenever this kind of anti-terorist issue comes up.
One question for those people. Which anti-terorist or law-enforcement organization around the World could have stopped or lower the number of victim, and how they would have done that? I am very curious.
As per “Japanese destroyers NOT ALLOWED to assist others”, please blame DPL, Communist and Socialist parties for preventing Japan to become a responsible member in the Intl issues.
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As i am a dane, we had a lot about the taking attackers of a dutch ship disscussion, basicly if the dutches doesn’t press charges against them, while we are holding them hostage, we get them in as imigrant prisoners. AS YOU ALL KNOW, japan is very negative about foreigners, and i perfectly understand if they don’t want to take pirates in their costacy just to imigrate them to japan.
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Which anti-terorist or law-enforcement organization around the World could have stopped or lower the number of victim, and how they would have done that?
None, probably, and that’s precisely the point. Practically speaking, these “training exercises” are useless. All they serve to do is remind people that they should still be afraid of the terrists* and fool people into thinking that law enforcement is in any way prepared to handle a serious attack. I’m tired enough of hearing about terrorism as it is; the fact that these exercises — executed using tax money — are shown on TV just about every other week really bugs me.
*yes, I meant to spell it that way.
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The ‘pirates’ were just not convincing enough – at least one of them could have been given an eye patch to wear or a parrot.
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Arrrrrrr.
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