RU Japan to Help Ukraine Eradicate Corruption - No word on how they plan to eradicate the whole government.

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Jiji Press

13:28 JST, January 5, 2025

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese government will begin a program this year to strengthen law enforcement efforts by the Ukrainian government to eradicate corruption.

It also plans to help Ukraine take judicial system reform measures so that the war-torn country can shed its reputation as a corrupted country and join the European Union.

Last month, Liudmyla Suhak, Ukraine’s deputy justice minister, told Japanese government officials in Tokyo that her country has serious problems in the area of combating corruption.

Praising Japan’s attitude of not tolerating corruption, she showed eagerness to develop cooperation with the Asian country and learn from and make use of the country’s experience.

Ukraine was 104th among 180 countries and regions in the 2023 corruption perceptions rankings by Transparency International, an international nongovernmental organization. Critics say that a lack of progress in the corruption issue is affecting Ukraine’s efforts to join the EU and win support from various countries to counter Russia’s invasion.

World Bank and other estimates as of the end of 2023 put Ukraine’s reconstruction costs at $486 billion over the next 10 years.

But a Japanese government official said, “If the situation remains unchanged, a substantial amount of money may go into the pockets of high-ranking bureaucrats.”

Japan, 16th in the same rankings, has provided support for legal system development including anticorruption measures to more than 10 countries over the past 30 years.

In view of this, Ukraine asked for Japan’s help in January last year. In August the same year, then Justice Minister Ryuji Koizumi visited the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and signed a memorandum of cooperation focusing on anticorruption measures and judicial reform.

Spending of ¥275 million has been included in the government’s fiscal 2025 draft budget to support the development of legal systems in Ukraine.

The government hopes to start concrete support measures within 2025 after holding working-level talks with Ukraine until spring.

Specifically, it is considering holding training sessions and seminars in Japan and Ukraine to develop human resources for law enforcement organizations as well as stationing Japanese government officials in Ukraine.

Ahead of the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine next month, momentum for a ceasefire is growing in the international community.

A senior Justice Ministry official said, “We need to produce results as soon as possible before [Ukraine] enters a reconstruction phase.”
 
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BlewberryNausea said:
Praising Japan’s attitude of not tolerating corruption, she showed eagerness to develop cooperation with the Asian country and learn from and make use of the country’s experience.
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Yeah, I surely will turn to the one-party state whose goverment is in bed with the big industrialists when it comes to fighting corruption. Pay no mind to this
 
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Praising Japan’s attitude of not tolerating corruption, she showed eagerness to develop cooperation with the Asian country and learn from and make use of the country’s experience.
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LMAO Japan is INSANELY corrupt. Its just "socially acceptable" corruption built into the system from before its inception. Its a cyberpunk dystopia run by monopolies that are all deeply in bed with the Yakuza. Their politicians are actually not that terrible when it comes to corruption, but they also have to bend to the corporate monopolies/Yakuza or face the Shinzo special.

Makes sense that a Dictatorship pretending to be a Democracy would praise a corrupt society pretending to be pure,
 
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Pretty sure that's a good way to weaken the war effort with bullshit red tape. And like others said, Japan is pretty corrupt in itself. Not the usual third world corruption, but the globohomo kind where you are either born elite or serf.
 
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LMAO Japan is INSANELY corrupt. Its just "socially acceptable" corruption built into the system from before its inception. Its a cyberpunk dystopia run by monopolies that are all deeply in bed with the Yakuza. Their politicians are actually not that terrible when it comes to corruption, but they also have to bend to the corporate monopolies/Yakuza or face the Shinzo special.

Makes sense that a Dictatorship pretending to be a Democracy would praise a corrupt society pretending to be pure,
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I think that more accurately depicts South Korea than Japan at this point, but I'm not against your judgement.
 
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Now if China wanted to help, they would simply say “execute any corruption”
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At least it is is cathartic to see rich fuckers taking neocon money face the wall. Don't like current day china, but they are not skimming my tax money for their zero return power fantasies.
 
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Chilson said:
LMAO Japan is INSANELY corrupt. Its just "socially acceptable" corruption built into the system from before its inception. Its a cyberpunk dystopia run by monopolies that are all deeply in bed with the Yakuza. Their politicians are actually not that terrible when it comes to corruption, but they also have to bend to the corporate monopolies/Yakuza or face the Shinzo special.

Makes sense that a Dictatorship pretending to be a Democracy would praise a corrupt society pretending to be pure,
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I always perceived Japan was one of the least corrupt places, even their version of capitalism is much more collective than in is in the West. I find people are much less likely to steal from their country when it's culture is homogeneous, I would expect this to be even more true in a country as obsessed with honor as Japan.
 
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Ukraine should have taken cues from Singapore or Denmark.
 
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I always perceived Japan was one of the least corrupt places, even their version of capitalism is much more collective than in is in the West. I find people are much less likely to steal from their country when it's culture is homogeneous, I would expect this to be even more true in a country as obsessed with honor as Japan.
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Well at the very least, since they are very much as corrupt as most other Asian countries in their...special ways, they don't want Western corruption in their country as its highly more toxic than theirs. No wonder the UN and payment processors are being used as a useless cudgel against them: Western countries are pissed that they haven't gotten them to fully kowtow towards their literally faggot-level "perfect systems".
 
"eradicate corruption in Ukraine"

So Japan is going to incinerate every inch of that country from east to west? Even the fish in the river are corrupt. The very soil that place sits on is corrupt.

Also kudos to the op for using the Russian flag when talk about Ukraine since the Ukraine is and always has been Russian territory.
 
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Chilson said:
LMAO Japan is INSANELY corrupt. Its just "socially acceptable" corruption built into the system from before its inception. Its a cyberpunk dystopia run by monopolies that are all deeply in bed with the Yakuza. Their politicians are actually not that terrible when it comes to corruption, but they also have to bend to the corporate monopolies/Yakuza or face the Shinzo special.

Makes sense that a Dictatorship pretending to be a Democracy would praise a corrupt society pretending to be pure,
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You forget the justice system which is pretty much guilty until proven innocent and the police can hold you up to 23 days for interrogation without charging you, they pretty much psychologically torture you into a confession.
 
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Drug prices in Japan are too high. I'm glad they found a way to lower the price of cocaine.:really:
Chilson said:
LMAO Japan is INSANELY corrupt. Its just "socially acceptable" corruption built into the system from before its inception. Its a cyberpunk dystopia run by monopolies that are all deeply in bed with the Yakuza. Their politicians are actually not that terrible when it comes to corruption, but they also have to bend to the corporate monopolies/Yakuza or face the Shinzo special.

Makes sense that a Dictatorship pretending to be a Democracy would praise a corrupt society pretending to be pure,
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All countries have socially acceptable corruption. Japan is nothing special, other than being a US puppet state. Look what American politicians do.
 
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At least it is is cathartic to see rich fuckers taking neocon money face the wall. Don't like current day china, but they are not skimming my tax money for their zero return power fantasies.
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What I don’t understand is when people embezzle the government in China, they know they will be killed. But I *STILL* hear about it happening.

Like, if a literal death sentence doesn’t stop corruption, what can? I at least hope it seriously reduces it
 
Is this a cover for Japan to ship all it's herbivore men to Ukraine since all the young Ukrainian men are dead? Not the worse plan tbh.
 
"Herro Mr. Gaijin, have you heard of most honorobru sudoku? We sell you kawaii anime brade to study."
 
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