Chapter 1135 Unlucky Japan
Japan, Tokyo!
The news that a mechanized infantry regiment was destroyed has been reported, which makes the Japanese Ministry of Defense and other agencies extremely depressed.
The Japanese Self-Defense Force is Japan's national defense force since World War II. It was established on July 1, 1954. According to Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, Japan renounces the right to resolve disputes with other countries by military means. Therefore, the Self-Defense Force is not a military organization in name, but in fact its function is equivalent to that of other countries' armies.
The Self-Defense Force includes three branches: the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, which are under the overall jurisdiction of the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
Under the guidance of the military construction policy of "quality over quantity" and "sea and air priority", the Self-Defense Force has developed into a well-equipped, well-trained and highly combat-capable armed force.
Since Japan is an island country with scarce resources, important resources related to national economy and people's livelihood are almost all imported, and there are many maritime territorial disputes with neighboring countries, Japan regards the Maritime Self-Defense Force as a priority force for development. At present, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is the sixth largest conventional maritime force in the world and the second largest in Asia.
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force is often ranked in the top ten by international military journals in the world army rankings.
By 2000, the active personnel of the Japan Self-Defense Force were 273,751,000, with 25,037 civilian personnel, a total of 298,788, and 47,900 reserve personnel. Among them, the Ground Self-Defense Force has 160,000 personnel (including 15,000 emergency reserve personnel), the Maritime Self-Defense Force has 46,000 personnel, and the Air Self-Defense Force has 48,000 personnel.
September 11, 2001 was also a huge opportunity for Japan. As the United States announced the war on Afghanistan and the Afghan war broke out, in order to force Japan to do more, the United States loosened its restrictions on Japan to a certain extent.
The Japanese Self-Defense Forces have been greatly expanded. In the fiscal year 2002 budget, the Japanese Ministry of Defense applied for a record 7.5 trillion yen in funding. In the fiscal year 2003 budget, this record was changed again, reaching 10 trillion yen.
Since the expansion began in October 2001, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces now have 380,000 active troops, an increase of more than 100,000, including 273,000 personnel in the Ground Self-Defense Force, 59,000 in the Maritime Self-Defense Force, and 48,000 in the Air Self-Defense Force.
However, in the battlefield of Afghanistan, in just one and a half years, the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force lost more than 10,000 people and more than 10,000 people were injured.
"Damn Americans, they are using us as cannon fodder!" The head of the Japanese Ministry of Defense cursed in his heart.
At this time, the night in Tokyo was already very dark, and this news was like a bolt from the blue.
To be honest, the Ground Self-Defense Force suffered such a large loss in the battlefield in Afghanistan, which was beyond Japan's expectations.
In the Afghan war, Japan mainly sent the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force.
But the Japanese felt that the Americans were using the Japanese as cannon fodder.
Thinking back to the Iraq War, Japan sent 30,000 Ground Self-Defense Forces and half of the Maritime Self-Defense Forces to the joint forces. This was the largest force Japan sent after World War II. Now the Ground Self-Defense Force has not suffered any losses, but the Maritime Self-Defense Force has suffered considerable losses.
Sure enough, on the Internet, the guerrillas publicly claimed to have annihilated a mechanized infantry regiment of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, and attached a battle clip, as well as 55 Japanese soldiers captured.
This news was reported one after another, causing a huge sensation for a while.
You know, on the battlefield in Afghanistan, the US military is the largest, followed by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, and then the British Army!
In the coalition composed of more than a dozen countries, the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force has suffered the most serious losses so far.
The Japanese government wants to reduce its influence in Japan as much as possible, but it is useless.
In the Internet age, the Japanese government can influence Japanese media, but it cannot influence the Internet, because Japan does not have any large Internet companies at all. In the field of Internet media, the Japanese government is powerless.
This news immediately caused an uproar in Japan.
It triggered huge criticism from the Japanese people. After all, since the end of World War II, Japan has been in peace as a whole. Even when the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, the Japanese economy was hit hard, ushering in a lost decade, and the annual GDP growth rate was negative, but that was only because the economy was not growing or even regressing. Life was actually still possible, and Japan was a developed country. In this case, only a part of the Japanese were really warlike, and most people did not want war at all.
Then because Japan participated in the Allied Forces and was retaliated, Japan suffered more than a thousand explosions of all sizes in the past year and a half, and the Japanese suddenly felt unsafe.
And you have to know that those extremists have no bottom line. The bombs may be in shopping malls, buses or bus stops, subways or subway stations, universities, middle schools, elementary schools, or even kindergartens. Of course, they may also be in hot springs or custom shops.
In the past year and a half, Japan has suffered heavy losses.
However, very few extremists were finally arrested!
What’s even more terrifying is that a large majority of them were Japanese. They were indignant at Japan’s incompetence and corruption and formed an organization called the ‘Red Army’.
The Red Army believes that the biggest obstacle to Japan's development is the Americans. If the Americans are not driven away, Japan will have no hope of development. Therefore, the Red Army aims to attract like-minded people, strengthen the organization, seize power, and then drive the Americans out of Japan so that Japan will no longer have American military bases and garrisons.
According to the intelligence obtained by relevant Japanese departments, the Red Army has now grown to a scale of 10,000 people and has even infiltrated the Self-Defense Forces.
But ordinary Japanese people don't care. They think that the current situation in Japan and the heavy casualties suffered by Japan in the Afghan battlefield are all the fault of the Japanese government, and the current Japanese government must be responsible.
There are even families of soldiers who died in Afghanistan holding the portraits of their children and husbands and sitting in the Ministry of Defense. They demand an explanation, especially for captured soldiers who were castrated because the Japanese government was unwilling to pay the ransom. These videos are not difficult to find on the Japanese Internet, which makes many people very dissatisfied with the current Japanese government.
Of course, many Japanese are dissatisfied with Americans. They think that the culprit of all this is the Americans. If the Americans did not want to promote hegemony, how could there be so many bad things?
What added fuel to the fire was that on that night, 10 American soldiers went out to have fun, ignoring the resistance of three Japanese girls, and tortured the three Japanese girls to death. These three Japanese girls were only high school students. These American soldiers were really beasts.
This video spread throughout Japan and the world in a short time, making ordinary Chinese people who were well protected stunned and exclaimed that it was incredible, but this incident ignited the anger of the Japanese. (End of this chapter)