Japan cleaning up americas dipshit militarism and making one of the few things post ww2 treaties allowed them to build look really good/competent is great pr for girl-nobotsuke-kishi, the current pm. It’s good optics. And its just sending a couple boats to do shit nobody would object to at that point.
Does Japan get oil from the middle east or something? The other side of the Northern Hemisphere seems like a long way for it.
Japan cleaning up americas dipshit militarism and making one of the few things post ww2 treaties allowed them to build look really good/competent is great pr for girl-nobotsuke-kishi, the current pm. It’s good optics. And its just sending a couple boats to do shit nobody would object to at that point.