We need to let them

Its only a matter of time before gundams

With space coming up we will need them more than ever

Besides at this point I think we can trust them more than a lot of other countries that have military. coughGermanycough

god reuters is trash

that article is a mess

Also Abe is a badass

he gets portrayed so poorly by the foreign news people would think we hate him probably though

Louis Le Vau keeps saying he's a corporatist - but he's not and I have no idea why he thinks that. I've sent some messages but he's never seen them I guess

to give you an idea. the US Navy builds on average 3 ships a year with 1 or 2 being decommissioned at the same time.

China is building about 5 new ships a year. Japan.... 7 so far this year alone. They ordered 60 combat ships last year and they're like at 14 already.

yup

but most are multi purpouse

EG aid and research facilities on board

one of the ship yards is about 1.5hrs drive fom me

cant wait for Evangelions

Abe is a good PM domestically, bad in foreign policy. He needs to give up on the Diaoyu Islands

Idk it sounded to me like china needs to give up on it

It's Chinese territory

The media only shows the Japan-PRC friction...but it neglects to mention that they also offend Korea and ROC(Taiwan) on a regular basis

Taiwan also claims Diaoyu

Taiwan maybe, China no not really

@Deleted User bullshit. The Chinese only claimed it after Japan found evidence of oil fields there in the 1970's. There's international records of this including old Chinese maps marking it as part of Japan.

Besides by that reasoning we should give California Arizona and Texas back to Mexico

Japan signed a treaty ceding all territory conquered

By your logic, Japan would still have jurisdiction over Taiwan

the fuck are you talking about

No

that's completely wrong

Japan had it before the war

Which China is the "real China" is a different issue. But whichever it is, it belongs to China

shit Japan had manchuria for a long while

china, you mean 支那, literally occupied [by Japan] China?

Japan occupied Taiwan at the same time that the islands were ceded. In the same treaty

that is absolutely incorrect

Japan never ceded Senkaku, I dare you to try and find that record

It's absolutely correct. 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki at the end of the Sino Japanese War

Idk

find for me where it mentions 尖閣諸島

That treaty gave Taiwan and Diaoyu to Japan. All territory except the four main islands and associated minor islands were given back at the 1945 Treaty of SF

If it was chinas pretty sure they would have been in control of it and not the US