Author: Zhang Wang Source: Ming Pao
At the end of 2018, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that when the Maritime Self-Defense Force P-1 marine patrol aircraft monitored the Kwanggaeto THE GREAT (DDH-971), the ship was used to command ships by monitoringThe fire control radar of the cannon and the RIM-7P sea sparrow missile.In this regard, South Korea has firmly denied that Japan and South Korea have diversified diplomatic wars.The Ministry of Defense later announced related films, intending to force the South Korean government to apologize to admit mistakes.
Regardless of who is wrong with Japan and South Korea, the announcement of this defense province's film reveals the actual situation of the Maritime Self -Defense Force fighter at the front line.In the film, the Japanese plane called the Korean side and claimed to be the Japanese Navy, not the Maritime Self Defense Forces.The domestic folks in Japan exclaimed: After working for a long time, the Self -Defense Force was actually an unjust army when they were on duty. What was going on?
Self -Defense Force's nature to see the wind and the rudder
The complex arrangements of the defense system and whether the self -defense team is constitutional, and is called theological controversy in Japan all year round.On the one hand, Article 9 of the Peace Constitution restricts the use of warfare rights when solving international disputes, and only retains only the minimum self -defense right.The full text of Article 9 of the Peace Constitution is: Japanese nationals sincerely seek international peace based on justice and order, permanently abandon the war launched by national power, and use force or force of force as a means to solve international disputes.In order to achieve the purpose of the preceding paragraph, there is no land, sea, air force and other war forces.Do not recognize the country's right to fight.On the other hand, Japan has formed an alliance with the world's top American and gradually develops self -defense forces.Therefore, there is a prerequisite for Japan's peacetime. It is impractical to talk about Japan's security issues from the Japanese and American alliances and the Self -Defense Force.Since the war, the Self -Defense Force has been a military and has been arguing in Japan.
Japanese officials have long adhered to the eclecticism of the wind to make the rudder, and tried to blur the nature of the Self -Defense Force.The so -called eclecticism of seeing the rudder refers to the policy decision is not based on the established principles, but the orientation of the outside world and the orientation of public opinion.When the decision makers judge the external environment and movement of the outside world, the policy expression will be blurred, and the claims of each faction will be incorporated into the policy to achieve the entry and retreat, the left and right sources, and avoid being approved.Therefore, we will find that the name of the self -defense team is very strange.For example, the air will refer to the attack machine as a supporting machine, Lu Ziqi calls the artillery troops as the field specialty forces, and Haizi calls light aircraft carrier as the helicopter frigates, all of which are used to avoid domestic and foreign criticism.
Similarly, at the end of 2018, after the Japanese new defense outline was released, Japan questioned the Constitution's interpretation of Abe's transformation of Abe's transformation of the cloud -sized helicopter frigates that violated the aggressive carrier that threatened other countries that threatened other countries.The Abe government's response is that the transformed Izumo is a multi -purpose use of the carrier, and it is usually not equipped with a fixed -wing aircraft (US -made F35B), so the cloud number is not an aggressive aircraft carrier.This method of dealing is like emphasizing that the Self -Defense Force is not an army. It is purely an official political language game. It wants to develop martial arts, but he is afraid of being accused of Japanese citizens and neighboring countries that are afraid of anti -war.From a military perspective, the classification of aircraft carriers has never been divided into aggressive aircraft carriers and defensive aircraft carriers.According to the tonnage, it is usually divided into light aircraft carriers, medium aircraft carriers and heavy aircraft carriers, or is divided into conventional power carrier and nuclear -powered aircraft carrier according to the source of power.The use of weapons is related to the strategy of the army, rather than the weapon itself.During World War II, the Empire Japan adhered to the expansion strategy. Even a small Japanese gunboat continued to be in an offensive state. It was obviously lacking common sense when talking about the offensive aircraft carrier.
Wittering of Japanese political language
Japanese military aircraft cruise films released by Japan and South Korea ’s maritime friction made the outside world a glimpse of Japan’ s original sound (Japanese, which means real thoughts).After the incident, a Japanese commentator Yang Jing's humanistic sensitivity noticed this issue, and wrote in its column: We finally saw how my country uses different languages abroad to explain the concept of the Self -Defense Force.As Pingcheng is about to end, we still have no clear argument for whether Japan has a country with a army.
The author is an associate professor at the International Education Department of Waseda University in Japan
