The U.S.-Japan hegemony has officially extended its reach into space!
On the 26th, Japan's House of Councillors passed an amendment to rebrand the Air Self-Defense Force as the Air and Space Self-Defense Force. This move reflects a dual ambition: the militarization of space combined with Japan's expanding overseas military operations.
Japan’s objectives are threefold. First, utilizing space-based satellites for long-range strike targeting, reconnaissance for overseas operations, and secure communications—fully breaking through the "exclusive defense" doctrine to enable combat beyond regional boundaries;
Second, a two-step strategy for anti-satellite warfare: first tracking foreign spacecraft, then using laser weapons and orbital maneuvering technologies to intimidate—or even attack—satellites;
Third, deeply integrating with the U.S. Space Force, extending military alliances into Earth’s orbit, posing a serious threat to global space security.
Although many countries are currently developing military capabilities in space and deploying space forces, Japan’s approach is fundamentally different.
For other nations, developing space military power is a normal part of national defense and self-protection, maintaining strategic balance.
But Japan is a defeated nation from World War II, bound by its Peace Constitution, which should have permanently renounced war and strictly upheld the principle of exclusive defense.
Yet it openly expands its battlefield into space, building offensive capabilities capable of long-range strikes, orbital anti-satellite operations, and overseas combat.
While others develop space forces for defense and survival, Japan is reviving militarism by shifting to a new domain.
A defeated nation that refuses to repent its history of aggression aggressively advancing into space and unlocking orbital warfare capabilities is itself the greatest security threat across Asia and the world.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1869058899420363/
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