THE ORIGIN OF JSDF

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In 1950, the Korean War broke out.

These days, there was a lot of U.S. Army’s base in Japan because Japan lose in WWⅡ, and occupied by the U.S. Army.

In Korean War, the U.S. Army supported South Korea. And they attacked North Korea.

Nothing to say, U.S. Army used many tank and plane to attack North Korea.

Most of these weapons belong to the U.S. Army’s base in Japan.

And to repair their damaged weapon, they used factory in Japan.

In military standpoint, it is not unnatural that North Korea attack Japan because if the Commander of North Korea thought “To win this war, we need attack base of U.S. army in Japan.  B-29, P-51 ,F86, and so on are very dangerous. We need attack the base of U.S. Army in Japan.”, maybe Japan would be attacked by North Korea.

These days, Japan was exposed the danger of embroil in the war.

So, to defense Japan and U.S. Army’s base, GHQ had to set up Japanese own Army.

The first name of Japanese own Army was ”Keisatsu-yobitai”

Keisatsu means “Police”, yobi means “sub” and tai means “” in English.

After two years from they were set, their name is changed to “Hoan-tai” because in the same year, Hoan-Tyou was set up to control them.

“Hoan” means in English.

And another two years after, their name is changed to “Japanese Self Defense Force”.

As you know, Korean War stopped in 1953 but there are a lot of threats for Japan in the world, so after they were set up, they work to defense Japan.

For example, a lot of military plane which belong to USSR, China and so on violated Japanese air space every day to search how long distance Japanese radar fence can detect.

Japanese Self Defense Air Force intercepts them every day.

If they do not exist, all of Japanese people will be exposed to their threat.

Now there are a lot of threats for Japan in the world.

China, Korea and Rossi is the representative. These country always prepare for the war with Japan.

JSDF’s origin is what we call “Self Defense”.

They never attack foreign first.

They work every day to defense Japan but not for attack foreign.