President Abe and the Japanese Military

The new Japanese President is powering up the Japanese military. They just put a small aircraft carrier into service and he's talking about changing the Constitution.

Is this a good thing for Japan? How about her neighbors?

Japan has every right to protect its citizens from the crazies who run North Korea. Japan is within easy reach of N.K's nuclear missils

Maybe they will take on the US again. After all, they seem to be pretty resistant to high dose radiation.

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The new Japanese President is powering up the Japanese military. (AThousandYoung)

Japan's President Abe has a reputation as a nationalist who's not truly
sorry enough about Japanese war crimes in the 1930s-40s (or earlier). (Duchess64)

Japan is a monarchy and does not have a "President". It has an Emperor and a Prime Minister, the latter being the position that Shinzo Abe holds.

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They never should have scrapped the Hosho.

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Originally posted by whodey
Maybe they will take on the US again. After all, they seem to be pretty resistant to high dose radiation.

This helicopter carrier can probably launch and recover F35Bs.