I think their stealth fighter prototype kinda overlaps in capabilities with the F-35. Had they made a dedicated ground attack or interceptor aircraft it would make more sense. They still do not have a replacement for their F-15s for example. The Japanese certainly expanded their amount of native aircraft models a lot in recent years though like the P-1 and the C-2.
Jura The idiot
General
Monday at 7:25 AM
Scenes from South 's 12-nation international fleet review held Thursday, led by the ROK's big assault ship L6111. Japan would've attended but for renewed controversy over the Rising Sun flag.
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Scenes from South 's 12-nation international fleet review held Thursday, led by the ROK's big assault ship L6111. Japan would've attended but for renewed controversy over the Rising Sun flag.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
The Japanese Military's Greatest Enemy Isn't China
But a shrinking population...
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In a nation whose population is so elderly that robot children substitute for the real thing, it’s not surprising to find a lack of young people to join the military.
But Japan is finding that robots are no substitute for people to maintain its military.
The Japan Self-Defense Force has been unable to meet its recruiting goals since 2014. As of March 2018, it was almost 10 percent below its budgeted strength of 247,154 personnel. Enlisted personnel, who tend to be younger, were 26 percent below their budgeted level.
“Empty recruiting tables and disinterested audiences are becoming more common for the JSDF as the country’s demographic troubles and robust economy have created what some defense insiders call a ‘silent crisis’ for military recruiting,” according to the Japan Times. “Amid a rock-bottom birthrate, the number of Japanese age 18 to 26 — the core of the recruitment pool — has shrunk to 11 million from 17 million in 1994. That group is forecast to shrink to 7.8 million over the next 30 years.”
Hideshi Tokuchi, a former vice-minister of defense, warns that lack of manpower will have consequences. “The manpower shortage will affect operational efficiency. It is a headache. There is more to do with fewer people and I don’t think there is any easy solution.”
Conscription is barred by Japan's constitution, so the military is trying to compensate by raising the maximum age for new recruits as well as recruiting more women. Females only make up about 6 percent of the JSDF, compared to 15 percent in the United States and 10 percent in Britain.
Japan's problems are hardly unique. Birth rates are falling in Russia (down 10.7 percent last year) and in Europe, while even the U.S. birth rate has fallen to a thirty-year low. In many nations, the allure of a lucrative civilian career outshines the splendor of a military uniform.
However, Japan does labor under the burden of the past. Military service has not been popular in post-World War II Japan, still haunted by the specters of fascism and atomic bombs. The Japanese constitution, shaped by the American occupation, outlaws war, while the Imperial military became a “Self-Defense Force.”
Japan's personnel crisis raises an interesting question: how many soldiers does a nation need to recruit to maintain its military power? Before World Wars I and II, France was acutely aware that Germany had a larger population to maintain a larger army. Thus the Maginot Line, which has gone down in history as folly, though it actually was a rational attempt to use concrete and steel to compensate for a lack of flesh.
But a shrinking population...
by
In a nation whose population is so elderly that robot children substitute for the real thing, it’s not surprising to find a lack of young people to join the military.
But Japan is finding that robots are no substitute for people to maintain its military.
The Japan Self-Defense Force has been unable to meet its recruiting goals since 2014. As of March 2018, it was almost 10 percent below its budgeted strength of 247,154 personnel. Enlisted personnel, who tend to be younger, were 26 percent below their budgeted level.
“Empty recruiting tables and disinterested audiences are becoming more common for the JSDF as the country’s demographic troubles and robust economy have created what some defense insiders call a ‘silent crisis’ for military recruiting,” according to the Japan Times. “Amid a rock-bottom birthrate, the number of Japanese age 18 to 26 — the core of the recruitment pool — has shrunk to 11 million from 17 million in 1994. That group is forecast to shrink to 7.8 million over the next 30 years.”
Hideshi Tokuchi, a former vice-minister of defense, warns that lack of manpower will have consequences. “The manpower shortage will affect operational efficiency. It is a headache. There is more to do with fewer people and I don’t think there is any easy solution.”
Conscription is barred by Japan's constitution, so the military is trying to compensate by raising the maximum age for new recruits as well as recruiting more women. Females only make up about 6 percent of the JSDF, compared to 15 percent in the United States and 10 percent in Britain.
Japan's problems are hardly unique. Birth rates are falling in Russia (down 10.7 percent last year) and in Europe, while even the U.S. birth rate has fallen to a thirty-year low. In many nations, the allure of a lucrative civilian career outshines the splendor of a military uniform.
However, Japan does labor under the burden of the past. Military service has not been popular in post-World War II Japan, still haunted by the specters of fascism and atomic bombs. The Japanese constitution, shaped by the American occupation, outlaws war, while the Imperial military became a “Self-Defense Force.”
Japan's personnel crisis raises an interesting question: how many soldiers does a nation need to recruit to maintain its military power? Before World Wars I and II, France was acutely aware that Germany had a larger population to maintain a larger army. Thus the Maginot Line, which has gone down in history as folly, though it actually was a rational attempt to use concrete and steel to compensate for a lack of flesh.
lol, I love the idea of using Dokdo as a pleasure boat for SK president here but Koreans will be there to celebrate the 65th anniversary of establishing JMSDF naval parade next year (I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a PLAN Type 054 dispatched there as well!).
Koreans and Japanese naval officers get along pretty well outside of waving flags for whatever political reasons that this stupid SK president claims...
I think the population issue in Japan is due to several factors and current Japanese government policy that aims to put more women in the workforce to compensate will only worsen that trend. They need to look no further than at Sweden to see an example of a country which successively reversed its negative growth rates by giving parents incentives to give birth and to take care of children to boost their birth rate.
AFAIK the Japanese housing market is also currently in a downturn. So if you mix that up with more incentives to have kids I think a population boom could easily happen in there. I think the Japanese work-life balance also sucks right now and that is another reason why people do not have kids.
With regards to the JSDF staffing issues, like said in the article, raising the maximum age requirement could easily solve the issue. Historically Sparta had men serve until they were 30 years old for example and those below 60 years old were put on reserve duty. Technically people only really start to lose their physical abilities around the time they are 38 or 39 years old so they Japan can easily increase the age requirement if needed.
Japan could also try to do something like the French Foreign Legion to compensate for its lack of manpower. There is no shortage of possible manpower in the Southeast Asia region for example. While this is something that I think goes against their military tradition, I think it is a realistic option to them.
AFAIK the Japanese housing market is also currently in a downturn. So if you mix that up with more incentives to have kids I think a population boom could easily happen in there. I think the Japanese work-life balance also sucks right now and that is another reason why people do not have kids.
With regards to the JSDF staffing issues, like said in the article, raising the maximum age requirement could easily solve the issue. Historically Sparta had men serve until they were 30 years old for example and those below 60 years old were put on reserve duty. Technically people only really start to lose their physical abilities around the time they are 38 or 39 years old so they Japan can easily increase the age requirement if needed.
Japan could also try to do something like the French Foreign Legion to compensate for its lack of manpower. There is no shortage of possible manpower in the Southeast Asia region for example. While this is something that I think goes against their military tradition, I think it is a realistic option to them.
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SamuraiBlue
Captain
Japan already provides incentives to parents with children through tax deductions.
The biggest problem is population being centralized in the big cities, mainly Tokyo and Osaka resulting to commute of over an hour with demand based flat lease which gives an insane upper hand to landlords demanding a contract to be renewed every two years with renewal fee of one month on top of monthly rent. Basically housing problem is the biggest bottle neck in raising a big family right now, galvanized by high tuition fee for higher education.
If commute and rent becomes much more flexible then couples will consider giving birth to more than one child.
The biggest problem is population being centralized in the big cities, mainly Tokyo and Osaka resulting to commute of over an hour with demand based flat lease which gives an insane upper hand to landlords demanding a contract to be renewed every two years with renewal fee of one month on top of monthly rent. Basically housing problem is the biggest bottle neck in raising a big family right now, galvanized by high tuition fee for higher education.
If commute and rent becomes much more flexible then couples will consider giving birth to more than one child.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
The request made by SK had back fired on them in which 7 out of the 10 Navies flew their Naval Ensign instead of their national flag at the stern. The other three nations; USA, Indonesia and Vietnam uses their national flag as their Naval Ensign.Monday at 7:25 AMand
Scenes from South 's 12-nation international fleet review held Thursday, led by the ROK's big assault ship L6111. Japan would've attended but for renewed controversy over the Rising Sun flag.
On top the SK Navy flew a replica of the Naval Ensign used by Admiral Yi Sun-sin defying their own request.
Jura The idiot
General
I got quoted twice in this page so I'll say something:
the Japanese Imperial Navy was decommissioned in 1945, so was the Kriegsmarine;
I can't imagine German warships would now sail with Hakenkreuz,
but I can imagine if I had bought a boat, put up the Kriegsmarine flag on her, and sailed the river here, I would've been ARRESTED
the Japanese Imperial Navy was decommissioned in 1945, so was the Kriegsmarine;
I can't imagine German warships would now sail with Hakenkreuz,
but I can imagine if I had bought a boat, put up the Kriegsmarine flag on her, and sailed the river here, I would've been ARRESTED
SamuraiBlue
Captain
Hakenkreuz represented the Nazi political regime not Germany as a whole.
The Black eagle Coats of arms that represents present day Germany were used during WW1 as well as the Union Jack flew during Britain's Empirical days colonizing various regions around the world.
Do you hear any arguments over them?
Don't think so.