[Fedora]

I was glad to see the Japanese come on board in Iraq--getting Japan to de-pacify is a key to keeping the Chinese in check, IMO. They know they don't want to wake up Godzilla :)

[Ramius]

The Japanese have been de-pacified for a while now. I had the honor of seeing a Japan Defense Force (JDF) destroyer in the yards in Long Beach some [cough] long time back...

Even back then in the eighties, the JDF was in the bidness of making a no-nonsense navy. They had electronics on their bridge that we in the CG could've only dreamed of at the time. I'm pretty sure it is unclass now, but without giving anything away, think of this: 3D holographic display of the ship and it's entire environment of air, surface and subsurface.

Pretty whacked-out cool, that.