Is there any way that Japan could, as the title says, get a large military and have actual hard power instead of just a huge economy past WWII? I know this might be kinda implausible but that's fine. It doesn't have to be like the worlds most powerful army and navy but I'm just wondering if Japan could actually have a reasonably sized military like you would expect from a country with a huge population booming economy and worlds largest city.
I was thinking that maybe if the sino soviet split was delayed a year or two for whatever reason the US might start getting worried that NATO wasn't enough as it was if it had to take on the Chinese plus soviets and friends so it decided maybe it should tell Japan to get a little more than a self defense army and join the NATO countries. Idk just a thought
I was thinking that maybe if the sino soviet split was delayed a year or two for whatever reason the US might start getting worried that NATO wasn't enough as it was if it had to take on the Chinese plus soviets and friends so it decided maybe it should tell Japan to get a little more than a self defense army and join the NATO countries. Idk just a thought