China becoming more formidable threat in southeast Asia, Japan should re-arm, abolish their article 9 of their constitution, arm their submarines with nuke-tipped SLBMs, built 15 Izumo class LHDs, make variant of F-35Bs instead of F-35As. Reagan called that peace through strength.
It was noted in another article today that China can hit targets in India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and the Philippines with cruise missiles fired from its military aircraft flying in its own airspace. I am sure the release of the military info likely came from the communist regime in China itself, as part of their psyops on the public in their neighbors.
Japan has one of the largest navies in the world, they recently launched a helo-carrier, perfectly capable of carrying the F-35 Marine variant.