The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Tokyo, Japan!
The news that a mechanized infantry regiment had been wiped out has been reported back, causing great frustration to the Japanese Ministry of Defense and other agencies.

The Japan Self-Defense Forces is Japan's national defense force since World War II. It was established on July 1954, 7. According to Article 1 of the Japanese Constitution, Japan renounces the right to resolve disputes with other countries by military means. Therefore, the Self-Defense Forces is not a military organization in name, but in fact its function is equivalent to that of the military of other countries.

The Self-Defense Forces include three branches: the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, and are under the overall jurisdiction of the Japan Ministry of Defense.

Under the guidance of the military construction principles of "quality over quantity" and "sea and air priority", the Self-Defense Forces have developed into an armed force that is well-equipped, well-trained and has strong combat capabilities.

Since Japan is a resource-scarce island country, and almost all of its important resources related to national economy and people's livelihood rely on imports, and it has many maritime territorial disputes with neighboring countries, Japan has prioritized the development of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Currently, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is the sixth largest conventional maritime force in the world and the second largest in Asia.

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force is often ranked among the top ten in the world's army by international military journals.

By 2000, the Japanese Self-Defense Force had 273751 active personnel, 25037 civilian personnel, a total of 298788 personnel, and 47900 reserve personnel. Among them, the Ground Self-Defense Force had 16 personnel (including 1.5 emergency reserve personnel), the Maritime Self-Defense Force had 4.6 personnel, and the Air Self-Defense Force had 4.8 personnel.

September 2001, 9 was also a huge opportunity for Japan. As the United States announced the war on Afghanistan and the war broke out, in order to force Japan to contribute more, the United States relaxed its restrictions on Japan to a certain extent.

The Japanese Self-Defense Forces have been greatly expanded. In the fiscal year budget for 2002, the Japanese Ministry of Defense applied for a record 7.5 trillion yen in funding. In the fiscal year budget for 2003, this record was changed again, reaching 10 trillion yen in funding.

After the expansion began in October 2001, the number of active troops of the Japan Self-Defense Force has now reached 10, an increase of more than 38. Among them, the Ground Self-Defense Force has reached 27.3, the Maritime Self-Defense Force has 5.9, and the Air Self-Defense Force has 4.8.

However, in the Afghan battlefield, in just one and a half years, more than ten thousand Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers were killed and more than ten thousand were injured.

"Damn Americans, they are using us as cannon fodder!" the head of the Japanese Ministry of Defense cursed in his heart.

The night in Tokyo was already very dark, and this news came like a bolt from the blue.

To be honest, the heavy losses suffered by the Ground Self-Defense Force in the Afghan battlefield were beyond Japan's expectations.

In the Afghanistan War, Japan mainly dispatched the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

But the Japanese felt that the Americans were using them as cannon fodder.

Think about it again, in the Iraq War, Japan sent 3 Ground Self-Defense Forces and half of the Maritime Self-Defense Force to the joint forces. It was the largest force Japan has sent since World War II. Now the Ground Self-Defense Force has not suffered any losses, but the Maritime Self-Defense Force has suffered considerable losses.

Sure enough, on the Internet, the guerrillas publicly announced that they had annihilated a mechanized infantry regiment of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, and attached battle clips and 55 captured Japanese soldiers.

This news was reported one after another, causing a huge sensation for a while. You know, in the battlefield of Afghanistan, the US military is the largest, followed by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, and then the British Army!
Among the coalition forces composed of more than a dozen countries, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force has suffered the heaviest losses so far.

The Japanese government wants to minimize the impact in Japan, but to no avail.

In the Internet age, the Japanese government can influence Japanese media, but it cannot influence the Internet because Japan does not have any large Internet companies. The Japanese government is completely powerless in the field of Internet media.

This news immediately caused an uproar in Japan.

This has triggered huge criticism from the Japanese people. After all, Japan as a whole has been in a peaceful era since the end of World War II. Even when the economic bubble burst in the early 90s, the Japanese economy was hit hard, ushering in a lost decade with negative GDP growth rates every year. But that was just because the economy was not growing or even regressing. Life was actually still passable, and Japan is a developed country. In this situation, only a small number of Japanese are truly warlike, and most people do not want war at all.

Then, because Japan participated in the Allied Forces, it was retaliated against, causing Japan to suffer more than a thousand explosions of varying sizes in the past year and a half. The Japanese suddenly felt unsafe.

And you have to know that those extremists have no bottom line. The bombs may be in shopping malls, on buses or bus stops, on subways or subway stations, in universities, middle schools, elementary schools or even kindergartens. Of course, they may also be in hot springs or custom shops.

In the past year and a half, Japan has suffered heavy losses.

However, only a few extremists were eventually captured!
What's even more terrifying is that a large number of them were Japanese. They were angry at Japan's incompetence and corruption and formed an organization called the "Red Army".

The Red Army believed that the biggest obstacle to Japan's development was the Americans, and that Japan would have no hope of development if it did not drive the Americans away. Therefore, the Red Army wanted to recruit like-minded people, expand the organization, seize power, and then drive the Americans out of Japan, so that Japan would no longer have American military bases and garrisons.

According to intelligence obtained by relevant Japanese departments, the "Red Army" organization has now grown to a size of 10,000 people and has even infiltrated the Self-Defense Forces.

But ordinary Japanese people don't care. They think that Japan's current situation and the heavy casualties suffered by Japan on the battlefield in Afghanistan are all the fault of the Japanese government, and the current Japanese government should be held responsible.

There were even families of soldiers who died in Afghanistan who went to the Ministry of Defense to sit in protest, holding the portraits of their children and husbands. They demanded an explanation, especially for the captured soldiers who were castrated because the Japanese government was unwilling to pay the ransom. These videos are not difficult to find on the Japanese Internet, which makes many people very dissatisfied with the current Japanese government.

Of course, there are also many Japanese who are very dissatisfied with Americans. They think that the Americans are the culprit of all this. If Americans did not want to promote hegemony, how could there be so many bad things and troubles.

To add fuel to the fire, that night, 10 American soldiers went out for fun and tortured the three Japanese girls to death, despite their resistance. These three Japanese girls were only high school students. These American soldiers were really brutal.

This video quickly spread throughout Japan and the world, leaving ordinary Chinese people who were well protected dumbfounded and exclaiming that it was unbelievable, but it also ignited the anger of the Japanese. (End of this chapter)