Japan deploys MSDF fleet to Indo-Pacific with eye on China

china must be contained, before it infects the entire world. Too late, I guess

Thomas GoodtimeToday  05:04 pm JST

Kishi is a moron

Nowhere near as much as anyone who supports the CCP dictatorship.

Thomas GoodtimeToday  05:37 pm JST

Nowhere near as much as anyone who supports the CCP dictatorship.

Well, of course.

But that isn't the point. And you know that.

DF KIshi is acting properly as Japan is allied with the QUAD and NATO. But you know that. So why do you think he's a moron?

DF=Defense Minister. And Ossian is correct. Kishi is acting in accordance with the will of the Quad: 4 sovereign democracies that are keeping an authoritarian PRC on notice that they are not going to pick off smaller nations one at a time and exert their will over the Indo-Pacific region.

Surprising to se Japan making an actual (if not too strong) display of force, it will be interesting to see what is the response from China to this.

Kishi is OK. He and his foreign minister were first thought to be pro-China, but apparently reality prevailed and he's reformed and now doing fine. But the SDF and the MSDF really have to step up. Think asymmetric capabilities against three enemies at the same time - China, Russia and NK. An important strategic revision is to militarily strengthen the QUAD by including Taiwan. China has to be stopped, by pressure if necessary.

China has to be stopped

I hope your aware of how completely pathetic that sounds.

None of the pacific countries surrounding China are strong enough individually to stand up to the bullying agenda of the CCP. Therefore mutual training with allies is both necessary and beneficial so that at need they can operate smoothly together.

Whatever else in this Kishi is acting in the best interests of Japan.

Great to see Japan playing a strong role in standing up for freedom and democracy - against nations who despise those ideas.

Kishi is a moron

The CCP supporters are out in force.

Japan is allied with useless bullies

the only bullies in the world are Russia & China.

You need to unite & stand up to bullies

China has to be stopped

I hope your aware of how completely pathetic that sounds.

supporting bully countries like Russia & China is way more pathetic

That is great.

Good for democratic nations to become more active and assertive in the region. As it is all in response to China, they can hardly complain about it.

You are a sovereign country, those countries you are going to are also sovereign countries, its international water. If, you want to go, just go. Its a free world.

Why do you/have to ? framed it as, in view of China/with an eye on China/counter China?

The only reason/purpose is to provoke them/which is what America's sole purpose is, whatever they are doing. If you do not provoke them, you find no reason/purpose to go there/sail there.

Independent foreign policy? What a joke.

That is one ugly ship I paid for. It needs some color on it. Does it really need to be grey these days? Couldn't it be cherry blossom pink? Why not? Radar doesn't see colors, it sees a ship.

Japan needs to rearm itself quickly, own army, own weapons, own nukes

America and some people like to frame it as for democracy, perhaps. they think it give them moral high ground.

Its either blind/delusional/or just blatant disregard for the truth.

Reason being, very soon, the American president is going to the Middle East, specifically, to a country, i can only describe as, perhaps, completely opposite from the kind of democracy the American has in mind.

Fooling no one, except, those who see only what they want to see.

It do not have plane ,only landing for helicopter,some Japanese have no shame,,looking silly too the world

The US is having second thoughts about sending predators drone to Ukraine, because they know they will get shot down,they do not want the tech to get in the hand of Russian

That is not for "freedom and democracy"..

It is just the pathetic game of US because is afraid of losing its first place in World ecomonics because China is doing things right..

US acts like a spoiled kid without his balloon..

Sigh. RIMPAC exercises have been conducted every two years on even numbered years for many decades. The JMSDF has always participated in them. As far back as the 1970s I can recall as a kid visiting JDS Amatsukazi DDG163 (I still have the welcome aboard brochure !) visiting the US and taking part in exercises with the US Navy. Later on as a US Navy pilot our ship the USS Sacramento was attached to a Japanese task force that included one of their earlier DDHs to serve as their replenishment ship during a RIMPAC exercise. There were ships from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia (those last two were operating together which was a surprise considering their history of occasional confrontation) and the Royal Navy. Everyone was out there. Lots of good cross deck training. That is what RIMPAC is about.

t do not have plane ,only landing for helicopter,some Japanese have no shame,,looking silly too the world

Izumo just got out of the yards after being modified to operate F-35Bs. The mods included flight deck coatings to withstand engine heat and the take off line painted down the port side of the flight deck plus landing aids. It will operate USMC F-35Bs from time to time until Japan's F-35Bs are operational. At her next overhaul she will have the forward end of the flight deck squared off to improve airflow over the bow along with some internal changes to facilitate weapons handling. Kaga will receive identical modifications during upcoming overhauls. RIMPAC will be the opportunity for Marine aviators and support crews to become familiar with her.

Communists don’t like countries that defend themselves nor do they like the military or defense ministers of those countries. That is so sad.

Why is the rogue state of the USA always stirring up trouble, oh yeah, massive weapons sales.

Why is the rogue state of the USA always stirring up trouble, oh yeah, massive weapons sales

Japan builds the great majority of their weapons domestically. Some are license built copies of foreign equipment but quite a bit is unique to Japan including air to air and anti-ship missiles. Japan builds all of their own military and coast guard vessels, and they are unique to the Japanese. All those F-15s, F-2s, C-1s, C-2s, P-1s, KV107 and Chinook helicopters in Japanese service were built in Japan.

Why is the rogue state of the USA always stirring up trouble, oh yeah, massive weapons sales.

Btw, if you look at the foreign designed equipment on JMSDF ships and the license built equipment in the JGSDF you find an awful lot of European designed hardware.

@ Fighto

Japan playing a strong role

As usual you think this is the great Japan and a show of strength and force .

But it isn't !

Its just an annual exercise with a little extra ground force exercise thats Probably not even using real bullets.

Japan always waits to be told what to do by the USA military - just you remember that !

And no iam not pro China.

@Desert Tortoise

your weaponry knowledge is impressive.

Who's copying who....

I think it's interesting to find the Chinese invented gunpowder and guns and the Ryukyuans had them before the Europeans.

The secret of gunpowder technology was stolen from China by the Europeans supposedly.

The Chinese are masters of deception whilst the Japanese are masters of sneak attacks.

@Kyo wa heiwa dayo ne

Japan always waits to be told what to do by the USA military - just you remember that !

And no iam not pro China.

You keep saying that, but I do not buy it. You seem anti Japan in your comments and many are pro China using their propaganda.

Japan makes decisions based on its best interests. That it often aligns with US direction of policy is because they are on the same team/alliance. Japan often says no to US requests, or waters them down significantly, unless it agrees with the US.

The Chinese are masters of deception

If by masters of deception you mean the wumao’s who comment using English or Japanese screen names, then the Chinese need to try harder because no one in their right minds is deceived by the commie propaganda.

The secret of gunpowder technology was stolen from China by the Europeans supposedly.

While that may be the case, since WWII energetic materials have advanced dramatically beyond gunpowder and TNT. China has not contributed anything to this more recent development process. You see them clinging to liquid fuel rocket motors for ballistic missiles where western designs long ago abandoned liquid fuels for solid fuel rocket motors. China does not yet have the material science necessary for high powered solid fuel rocket motors. That lack of tech implies to me they have not mastered the most modern energetic materials used in both rockets and warheads.

The Chinese are masters of deception whilst the Japanese are masters of sneak attacks

The CCP are only deceiving themselves. Everyone can see what they are up too stealing IP from companies around the world, predatory lending to third world nations unable to repay the loans, and territorial claims with no basis in international law. The CCP can stomp their feet and cry all they want that they are not stealing IP but everyone knows they are. Nobody is fooled by them.