Japanese militarism?As is usually the case when the Chinese Communist Party says something, take the opposite and you’ll likely have the truth. Japan is a threat to nobody. It has near-zero strategic “power projection” capability.
Assuming it arrived unscathed, the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) could land its entire Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (all 3,000 of them) on the coast near Shanghai – and nobody would notice. The JSDF missed recruitment targets by 50% a couple of years ago. It routinely misses recruitment goals by 20-25% – and has done so for years. It’s half the size it needs to be to carry out all required missions, including defending Japan itself against China, Russia and North Korea.
