Depuis la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale le Japon ne possédait qu'une force armée défensive. Des opérations menées récemment semblent indiquer que le pays craint de plus en plus la politique agressive de la Chine et les discours provocateurs de la Corée du Nord. Japon et États-Unis dans un effort concerté? L'histoire a parfois de ces rebonds...
"The new assertiveness has been particularly apparent under the new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, a conservative who has increased military spending for the first time in 11 years. With China’s maritime forces staging regular demonstrations of their determination to control disputed islands in the East China Sea and North Korea’s new leader issuing daily proclamations against the United States and its allies, Mr. Abe’s calls for a bolder, stronger military are getting a warmer welcome in Japan than similar efforts in the past.
“This is a very serious rethink of Japan’s security,” said Satoshi Morimoto, defense minister in the last administration, who was an architect of changes in Japan’s defense policy.
Until recently, a simulated battle against Chinese forces would have been unthinkably provocative for Japan, which renounced the right to wage war — or even to possess a military — after its march across Asia in World War II resulted in crushing defeat. The purely defensive forces created in 1954 are still constrained from acting in too offensive a manner: last year, a smaller mock assault by Japanese and American forces on an island near Okinawa was canceled because of local opposition.
That recalculation — a large step in what analysts see as a creeping over the years toward a more robust Japanese military — could have broad implications for the power balance in the region, angering China and likely giving the United States a more involved partner in its pivot to Asia to offset China’s extended reach."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/asia/japan-shifting-further-away-from-pacifism.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130402
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