The Power To Change The Regional Pattern Of Japan

Already estimated that if Japan relax arms export policy, its ships, electronics and other advantages of military industry will account for half of global exports of similar products, the export of aerospace-related industries will account for a quarter of market share

From the Hiroshima City after more than thirty minutes by train to the naval base, "Wu" (Kure).

U.S. submarines docked at the shore, the flag on the submarine, told the people all through here, stop here, the U.S. submarine. A Navy soldier is free to stand in front of guard post on the naval port, the harbor was empty.

U.S. military bases surrounding the processing of large and small arms components factory. Factories and military bases in the heavily guarded compared to some, most of the factory gate closed, and occasionally a truck out, and must before and after detailed examination. From the naval base near the hill to the harbor looked, basically do not see signs of human habitation.

"We provide spare parts for the U.S. military, naval port near the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to use the various components of our offer, but rely on the military services, our business is difficult to maintain, to produce products for other industries to use in order to survive. "a local staff of military enterprises," China News Weekly, "said. This company took over the Japanese in World War II naval shipyards, mainly for the U.S. Navy at the beginning, gradually also providing for the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force warships, submarines parts.

And military aspects are directly related to the Japanese companies have about 1,000. Most of them had before World War II period of rapid development, but with the defeat of Japan, the production capability has been greatly weakened, pure military enterprises have been rare. "China Newsweek" interview by the Japanese military enterprises, the current production of civilian goods have largely business as the main content.

With Japan and China gradually lost supplies in the international competitive advantage, quickly find a new profit point become indispensable to the survival of the direction. But after the war to the world that Japan "is not to force to resolve international disputes," and declared that "three principles of arms exports", the export of arms as a military enterprise to a new growth point, the legal level, difficult to break.

"Three principles of arms exports" is developed and implemented during the reign of the Liberal Democratic Party, which allow the Cabinet to amend the relevant principles of the Liberal Democratic Party faces many difficulties; wait until the "innovation" as the campaign slogan of the Democratic era, breaking the restrictions on arms exports only a matter of course.