In a Test of Wills, Japanese Fighter Pilots Confront Chinese (Japan is rearming)

NY Times ^ | 08 March 2015 | MARTIN FACKLER

[NRx]

...Under its nationalistic prime minister, Shinzo Abe, Japan has embarked on the most sweeping overhaul of its defense posture in recent memory. Not only has Mr. Abe reversed a decade-long decline in military spending as part of what he calls “proactive pacifism,” but his government is also rewriting laws to lift restrictions on Japan’s armed forces, which are already taking a more active role as far afield as the Gulf of Aden.

[AU72]

The CHICOMS are going to regret re-awaking the Japanese Samurai spirit.

[Enterprise]

Japan to China: Yu So Dum.

[lavaroise]

Can’t wait to see Chicom waking to the Japanese having 3000 nukes at the ready overnight.

[gaijin]

[driftdiver]

Bam bam is just bring peace all over the world.

[gaijin]

The Izumo is part of a more mobile military that Japan is building to defend its far-flung islands to the south, including the contested ones — with or without the United States, if necessary.

Ever notice just how many allies are saying this kind of stuff, these days..?

GOSH I WONDER WHY.

[Army Air Corps]

Yamato-Damashii

[Army Air Corps]

Pei-Ping

[Army Air Corps]

Ping

[JohnBrowdie]

We should advocate a full remilitarization of Japan. That would get the chinese leadership’s attention — and probably Putin’s, as well.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[meatloaf]

Between Japan, India and us if we get our %$&* together, China is looking at biting off more than it can chew.

[doorgunner69]

Have long suspected that Japan has built the components and had them on the shelf for years. They are too smart to leave that door to attacking them open, when it would be so easy to deny having weapons. they have never been asked if they had the parts to build them.

With all their satellite launches, they certainly have the means to deliver them. Letting China know a few things have been assembled would have a chilling effect on Beijing's ambitions if they get frisky with Japan.

[Poison Pill]

We should advocate a full remilitarization of Japan.

Be careful what you wish for...

[Shadow44]

What’s the saying they have? I think it’s, Japan is only a screwdriver away from being a nuclear power!

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[deweyfrank]

I’m with that. Japan is a better friend than anyone in the Middle East, China, Russia, or N. Korea.

[EternalVigilance]

“Soft power,” quite predictably, leads to hard consequences.

[AU72]

The enemy of a friend is an enemy.