BoricuaKanto comments

Hmm, sometimes this type of commentary is based on perception and not on official comments from the JSDF and US forces involved on the operation.

Exhibit D: (In fact, an unnamed Maritime Self-Defense Force member tells Shukan Post, “All the U.S. side did was send planes and helicopters into the air. The searching was done by Maritime SDF, Japan Coast Guard and Japanese police divers.”)

What this from an official MSDF source, or just an MSDF member? Get the facts on the reasons why this was done, whoever Shukan is. We owe Japan a debt of gratitude and we did it because we care about your country. I am honored to live in such a great country like Japan, and I want to support them in anyway necessary, not because I want to look good on newspapers...