Army（JGSDF）
Type 03 SAM – Japan’s Advanced Air Defense System
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History Toba-Fushimi – The Battle That Created Modern Japan
End of the Shogun Era One battle defined the fate of Japan in the mid-19th Centu...
Military How Good Was The Mitsubishi F-1 Fighter Jet?
De-facto Fighter Bomber Following the defeat in WW2, Japan was temporarily banne...
Army（JGSDF） Too Vulnerable? Japan’s Type 96 Armored Personnel Carrier
JGSDF's First wheeled APC Armored Personnel Carriers (APC), which can swiftly an...
Navy（JMSDF） The Secret Role of JMSDF’s Muroto-Class ARC
Cable Laying Ship For ASW When it comes to secrecy within the Maritime Self-Defe...
Army（JGSDF） How Does The Type 91 MANPADS Compare To The Stinger?
Japan's Portable Air-Defense Despite being vulnerable to aerial attacks, modern ...
Army（JGSDF） Japan’s Extremely Useful Type 92 Mine Clearance Vehicle
Using Rocket-propelled Charges Overcoming minefields have been one of the most d...
Army（JGSDF） Not Enough? Japan’s Type 99 Self-Propelled Howitzer
JGSDF's Modern Howitzer As seen in the Russo-Ukrainian War, continuously firing ...
Military Why Japan Canceled The Aegis Ashore Program
Relieving the Navy Every since North Korea's missile program was revealed as a t...
Navy（JMSDF） Why Kongo-Class Aegis Destroyers Are Crucial For Japan
Japanese's First Aegis Known for their highly sophisticated air-defense, Aegis d...
Army（JGSDF） Can Japanese SSM Regiments Stop The Chinese Navy?
World's Top SSM Operator As an island nation, preventing any enemy landing is th...
Military Why Japan Is Deploying Its Air Force To Australia
The Quasi-Alliance Japan's formal ally is the United States alone, but recent ye...
Army（JGSDF） No Replacement? Japan’s Type 89 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
The First Japanese IFV In modern land battles, infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) ...
Politics Why The 1993 Non-LDP Coalition Failed Miserably
Unified Only By "Anti-LDP" When it comes to post-war Japanese politics, one part...
Military Explaining Japan’s Murasame-Class Destroyers
Large & Standardized Among the impressive list of surface vessels, the current b...
Military The Type 12 Torpedo – Japan’s Latest Submarine Killer
For Short-Range Attacks Once cherished by the Imperial Japanese Navy, torpedos h...
Army（JGSDF） JGSDF’s Guntank – Type 87 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun
The Japanese "Gepard" The Russo-Ukrainian War has brought many insights in a mil...
Military What Happened To Mitsubishi’s X-2 Stealth Fighter Jet?
An Experimental Plane While gradually increasing the number of F-35 stealth figh...
Army（JGSDF） JGSDF 7th Division – Japan’s Only Armored Division
Key To Northern Defense Among the JGSDF (Japanese Army), one division stands out...
Military Super Rare? JMSDF’s Asuka Class Experimental Ship
Built Solely For Testing The JMSDF (a.k.a the Japanese Navy) hosts a pretty impr...
Army（JGSDF） Agile, But Obsolete? Kawasaki’s OH-1 Ninja Helicopter
For Air Reconnaissance Though the modern Japanese Army (JGSDF) buys most of thei...