They will need their own military now, far beyond their self Defence Forces.
This development is rather inevitable. Economic relationship between China and Japan is currently at the highest point ever; part of Japan's economic rebound and increased consumer spending this past year has been because of cheap Chinese products entering the Japanese market.
Better Sino-Japanese relations is not a bad thing, just it's going to be difficult to realize.
How idiotic can some countries get. First, we have South Korea making overtures to the North, and now this!!!! Japan even wants better relations with the Russians.
To coin a phrase from the old Cold War, the
"Finlandization" of Japan vis a vis China has begun.
In other news, scientists baffled by sudden loss of spine all across japan.