Posted on 05/07/2016 8:55:45 PM PDT by Rabin
China’s activism in the East China Sea is goading Tokyo to defensive measures along the southern islands, " Nansei". On the heels of new self-defense legislation, to engage in armed conflicts (for the first time since the end of World War II). Tokyo will close in on China through a variety of ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) and antimissile facilities. Key to this strategy is the Ryukyu Island Chain, which includes the Okinawa and Kagoshima.
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Raben
Greater Asia Co-prospherity Sphere. Asia for the Asians. Japan WAS the big brother. Now? Who has the money and military?
+ another /long lance/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_93_torpedo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_89_torpedo
The Chinese have been bullying people in the Pacific Rim for 80 years since the end of WWII.
It’s long past time for the Japanese to fully re-arm to defend themselves. WWII was seventy years ago. Anything the Japanese do to secure their own region of the world, rather than continuing to function as a US client state, is a good thing. Including the development of nuclear weapons. That would really put the screws to China!
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