[AmericanInTokyo]

They will be impressed. Maybe too shocked, I hope they are ready for this as well as their first bullet train ride and a visit to the top of Osaka Nankai Tower Bldg.

Yes, they will be impressed if they can get to one of these ceremonies in Tokyo, with the new, Post-war Democratic Japanese military, alive and well, heads hung no longer in shame and defeat.

"Army! Air Force! Navy! Marines!"

[WestVirginiaRebel]

I wonder what they'll think of anime?

[King Prout]

so, ah... the one in red stands for the Coast Guard?

question: have the MILITARY forces (not JDF - how degrading!) resumed the right to fly the true and proper battle ensign?

[Spktyr]

The IJN and IJA are long dead and buried. Forward the SDF!

[Gondring]

"Army! Air Force! Navy! Marines!"

Regarding culture change...

"[Before the war, Japanese women were] virtuous, and obedient to the commands of menfolk, lovely to look at, gentle and retiring...[Now, they are] monsters whose virtue is all but gone from them, and who screech like apes."
              --Japanese holdout soldier Shoichi Yokoi, captured on Guam, 24 January 1972