[Tintin Storm]

The issue of giving a legal status to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces seems to be a formality at first sight. The country of the Rising Sun was an ally of Nazi Germany, and the refusal to use military force is an important part of the historical repentance of the Japanese people for the atrocities of militarists who killed millions of Chinese and Koreans.
Nevertheless, on May 3, 2017 - the day when the country celebrated the 70th anniversary of the post-war Constitution, Shinzo Abe made a call to change the Basic Law.
In an interview with the Yomiuri newspaper, the prime minister assured the citizens that the Constitution would remain peaceful, but the status of the self-defense forces should be prescribed. In his opinion, this can be done in 2020.
Abe believes that the Self-Defense Forces fully fulfill their duty and have the confidence of more than 90% of the population.
Japan has been implementing military reform since 2012, which involves renaming the Defense Forces and giving them the right to strike at enemy bases. An important milestone in this way was the permission of the Japanese Parliament to use Japanese soldiers in foreign operations. On March 9, 2017, Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said that Japan would strike North Korea if missiles were launched toward Japanese territory.
All this takes place against the backdrop of worsening relations between the Japanese public and American military personnel regarding the continuing violations of US soldiers stationed on US military bases in Japan.
Military bases and other objects of US military infrastructure have been existing on the territory of Japan since the end of the Second World War.
Even though Americans have abandoned some bases and transferred land back to Japan, there is a movement among the Japanese population for stopping the activities of bases and liberating their lands. This situation is due to crimes that are periodically committed by US servicemen and incidents of helicopter crashes.
In January 2017, the United States and Japan signed an additional treaty to an agreement on the status of the US Armed Forces, limiting the judicial immunity of military base personnel.
In the present days, Japan's Self-Defense Forces are perfectly staffed with professional military personnel and equipped with the latest examples of military equipment. They are competent to carry out military operations to protect Japanese citizens and territories from any modern threats. Japan realizes that it has enough resources to ensure own security, but this is not to the liking of foreign partners from the US, because it violates their plans to establish geopolitical and military hegemony.

[ThirdTerm]

In the present days, Japan's Self-Defense Forces are perfectly staffed with professional military personnel and equipped with the latest examples of military equipment. They are competent to carry out military operations to protect Japanese citizens and territories from any modern threats.

Japan's SDF soldiers are still a bunch of amateurs without real combat experience because the constitution made war as a means to resolve disputes illegal. When a group of SDF soldiers were in Sudan as part of the UN peacekeeping mission, they were banned from firing a shot, thus abiding by the pacific constution. Without being protected by 50,000 American soldiers, Japan would be extremely vulnerable to external threats. China would be the first to grab disputed islands gleefully.