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Originally Posted by hooliganj
Aside from forcing them into a democracy (probably our most successful regime change  ) and that whole bit about how they can't start a conflict of any kind on foreign soil for any reason or they are instantly guilty of breaking the treaty, and several war crimes charges as well. That's why they don't have an 'army', 'navy' or 'air force', rather they have the 'self defense force', 'naval defense forse' and 'air defense force'. Furthermore, any planes possessed by the Japanese military are severely restricted in range capabilities.
All because of the insanely restrictive treaty we imposed upon them after WWII, although, admitedly, it wasn't nearly as bad as the one the allies forced on Germany after WWI. |
It's part of their constitution and they can change it at any time. Germany was forced to sign a treaty for WWI.
Well, I didn't use Google but went to Wikipedia, which is kind of cheating. Regardless, you could've found this fairly easily. Or payed attention in class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article...ution_of_Japan