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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That's my thinking.

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 can use it as a deterrent. they can preemptively strike launch sites.




it is insane to consider japan should stick to a promise they made 50 years ago.

also, one aircraft carrier doesn't mean japan is going to launch a campaign of conquest

They never should have scrapped the Hosho.

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I believe DPRK's missile and nuclear capabilities are grossly over rated. The threat to Japan at present anyway is much more DPRK's conventional army and navy, which would be impaired by tactical carriers.

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

That's pretty crass, whod.

This helicopter carrier can probably launch and recover F35Bs.