Japan’s leadership has given up its pseudo-pacifism and has started a massive military build-up. Instead of investing money in its ageing population, Japan has chosen a suicidal way, just like Imperial Japan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Introduction

Japan’s Defence Budget and History

After World War II, Japan was forced by its Western occupiers to rewrite its constitution, and Japan’s occupation is still visible today. After two atomic attacks on Japan in August 1945 by the United States, Japan chose to enter into a pseudo phase of pacifism. However, besides its inability to continue to fight, the Japanese leadership maintained a hostile rhetoric against Russia throughout the Cold War. To overcome its desire to harm the Russian interests, the Japanese chose to give the strategically important seaport of Yokosuka to the American military, and still the US Seventh Fleet is stationed at Yokosuka, Japan. The fleet was initially located at Brisbane, Australia, but in 1949 it was moved to Japan. The main reason behind shifting the fleet is to keep an eye on the Russian Pacific Fleet stationed at the seaport of Vladivostok. It is noticeable that the Russian Fleet at Vladivostok was established in 1731, long before the allied deployment to the region.

It is interesting to note here that the post-World War II Japanese Constitution........

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