Another country cucks to vax passports. Loses based status.
(japantoday.com)
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Yeah he reminds of a neocon tbh. Japan can't do anything with their military that isn't defensive in nature, btw, they can't even have bombers. Only way to do that is to change their constitution and the Japanese won't allow and don't want it, they've grown soft and domesticated since WW2 and are extremely anti-war period due to the A-bombs leaving a phycological scar on the nation. The majority see the JSDF as a well armed semi international FEMA at this point and want them to ONLY do humanitarian work. When a Japanese citizen, who was working as a merc for some PMC, was killed by terrorists they blamed him and were more worried about terrorism coming to Japan then a countryman's death. Same with that freelance video journalist that was beheaded, his fault and he got what he deserved for his naïveté. The Government actually billed his family for the cost of body retrieval and shipping it home, which is fucking disgusting......They're a great people but they're also incredibly naïve, they think they're safe on their island fortress and that no one will bother them if they don't stick their noses out or make waves, until the angry red dragon cracks their fortress open. And the eagle might not be able to or care to save them either.
I laugh at people who point to the JSDF when I say Japan doesn't have a proper army. They wouldn't last a week without intervention from one of their bigger allies, and they seem perfectly happy without that responsibility. Which is the point, just don't pretend Japan has the military capacity to maintain true independence.
It really depends. I trained with their JSDF in 2012 and they're quite good, if something went down they'd fight to the last. That said, they're a small force and too focused on naval superiority even though they have some excellent terrain and regions that would be Nam 2.0 for any country if they focused their ground forces on asymmetrical and guerilla warfare, they could last at least a year, but the ground forces are primarily focused on blitz style, hit and pull back then hit again, regular warfare. Their air force should be superior to China's but that's a numbers game like their navy and you can't really hit and run then hide in the air or water.