Its about time Japan pickled up the ball. WWII is over and they need to change their Constitution to allow greater spending and less “defense” and more “offense”.
I think they are trying to get that done now (changing the constitution). Let’s remember, that was put into the Constitution that we drafted for them. I would especially like to see them increase the size of their navy and air force. That is what is needed in that part of the world. I think we also need to do far more cooperation with India whose Navy is pretty good. They are no friend of China and can be a key player as well.
I believe that part of Japan’s surrender terms was a military of no more than 100,000. Not sure if that ever got changed or not.