[quote=“Israel_B, post:64, topic:88601”]
Japan currently has no army. The Japanese Self Defense Forces (air, land & sea) exist but are tightly legally limited to defensive action only. This may seem like pedantry but here its a matter of constitutional law which is actively debated in the Diet and really quite important to citizens and service people.[/quote]
Oh yes, right, their army is called “self defence force”. And Abe has been working actively for years to change the constitiutional limitations of Japan´s army. A controversial amendement has already been made in 2014 by his cabinet without prior debate.
That may be due to it looking exactly the same.
My Japanese is horrible, but I do speak a little, have studied the countries´ history, though I wouldn´t call myself an expert by any stretch, and I have been to Japan and talked to people there multiple times. I probably shouldn´t have said “the Japanese”, when I really meant the Japanese political elite and decision-makers, who tend to be extremely conservative and nationalist. I have seldomly found the people I have met personally anything less than delightful.
