{"id":199162,"date":"2007-08-30T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/more-on-japans-road-to-militarism\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T00:39:00","slug":"more-on-japans-road-to-militarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/30\/more-on-japans-road-to-militarism\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Japan&#8217;s Road to Militarism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/japan-starts-toward-abolishing-pacifism.html\">posted before<\/a> on what I see as Japan&#8217;s return towards its militaristic past, and now we have the Japanese<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/003686.html\">Defense Tech: Japan launching an aircraft carrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I present to you the the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hyuga<\/span>, 18,000 tons of naval pulchritude:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img241.imageshack.us\/img241\/1655\/hyugaqm2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s not a &#8220;real carrier&#8221;, like the American super-carriers, or the France&#8217;s smaller deGaulle.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, it will carry 4 helicopters, 3 Blackhawk types, and 1 Ch53E Super Stallion, though in a pinch, more can be accomodated.<\/p>\n<p>If the Japanese get the JSF, I can see them getting some of the STOVL versions and operating them from these boats, if just for training for a possible future, and larger, carrier of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Hermes<\/span> size.<\/p>\n<p>But still, the idea of Japanese getting back into carrier aviation does not fill me with anticipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted before on what I see as Japan&#8217;s return towards its militaristic past, and now we have the JapaneseDefense Tech: Japan launching an aircraft carrier. I present to you the the Hyuga, 18,000 tons of naval pulchritude: Of course, it&#8217;s not a &#8220;real carrier&#8221;, like the American super-carriers, or the France&#8217;s smaller deGaulle. Right &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}