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selfDemanDeD
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 Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:08 pm
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This poster actually looks more motivating than previous ones for me.
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egoist
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:21 pm
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Cheesy as hell.
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Chagen46
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:47 pm
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I'm certain I read that Japan can't have a true military because of something they signed after WWII.
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egoist
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:37 pm
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| Chagen46 wrote: | | I'm certain I read that Japan can't have a true military because of something they signed after WWII. |
I also heard you can't breach human rights, but then terrorism appeared.
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dragonmastr
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:40 pm
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| Chagen46 wrote: | | I'm certain I read that Japan can't have a true military because of something they signed after WWII. |
That's correct, they can't have a formal military, but they are authorized a Self Defense Force for it's own protection. Basically, it can have a small enough force to defend itself from attack, but not large enough to go on the offensive.
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Surrender Artist
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Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:49 pm
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According to a strict reading of Article IX of its constitution, Japan could keep no armed forces.
| The Constitution of Japan wrote: | | ARTICLE 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. (2) To accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized. |
This provision might have been proposed personally by General MacArthur, but nobody really knows whether he really defined the basic tenets of the constitution or just signed off on General Whitney's proposals.
A strict reading of the provision was a casualty of the cold war. Because of the growing antagonism between the Soviet Union and United States grew in the early fifties, the United States encouraged the creation of a military police auxiliary, which was eventually extended to become contemporary self-defense force. Legally, the SDF are part of the police. Because their whole existence is at least slightly dubious, for appearances the SDF operates under various restrictions to maintain a pretense that is it not a military. This is primarily not using various things that are considered 'offensive weapons', such a long-range missiles and aircraft carriers.
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Banken
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:51 pm
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Good concept, but the art design is seriously middle-school level.
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domino
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:22 pm
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"Join the military so chicks will dig you."
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nhat
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:20 pm
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| dragonmastr wrote: |
| Chagen46 wrote: | | I'm certain I read that Japan can't have a true military because of something they signed after WWII. |
That's correct, they can't have a formal military, but they are authorized a Self Defense Force for it's own protection. Basically, it can have a small enough force to defend itself from attack, but not large enough to go on the offensive. |
That's one of the reason JP technology, society and economically accelerated so quickly through the years. Almost all their resources went into that instead of maintaining a large military force.
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Greed1914
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:30 pm
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| domino wrote: | | "Join the military so chicks will dig you." |
Basically. 
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enurtsol
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:41 am
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Sunday Silence
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