Talk:Summer 2014 Event/@comment-9676492-20140805083532/@comment-16545476-20140805172931

>>Germany has a proper military?

Surprisingly they do. Thanks to the Korean War, West Germany was the front line against a possible Soviet envasion. So the western countries let them arm themselves up.

Speaking of the JSDF, I'm not too fond of the idea that Japan owning a proper military though. It's fine as a Self-Defence Force right now. My main concern is that Japan never officially stated that they lost the war and Imperialisim is still quite strong in their minds. (Technically, after the two nukes, Japan only admitted that the war was not going their way and the didn't lost it. They just accepted the truce offer from the Allied Forces.)  Though it simply translates as, "Yeah, we lost the war." A number of Japanese politicians and military leaders regards that statement as "We should lay low to fight another day."

Their whole political system was not destroyed like Germany, and the Imperialisim idea still clinged on somehow. So you really can't blame neighboring countries like Korea and Taiwan feeling rather uncomfortable with Japan owning a proper military, even when the three countries turned into allies during the Korean War. Even as allies, they constantly have territorial disputes. It's already stressful enough to look out for the PLA and North Korea. Adding in Japan with a proper military that can be dispatched into foreign territories will just heighten the stress, making things more and more complicated. (Though as far as I learned, they already passed a law allowing the JSDF to cross boarders.......)