Talk:Summer 2014 Event/@comment-9676492-20140805083532/@comment-84.188.103.104-20140805110745

Japanese constitution after ww2 forbids them even self defense, so the JSDF was pretty much illegal anywaa. Not sure if recent plans to change this made it through or not.

And the US wanted Japan to build up a military on their own in the times of the Cold War, they didn't care about ww2 due to the new threat. In military matters, Japan and US are very close allies.