1. Japan’s neo-militarism and re-militarization
Without repenting atrocities and war crimes it committed in the past, Japan is vigorously embarking upon neo-militarism and re-militarization under the US’s puppet far right PM Sanae Takaichi.
[Chairperson of LDP General Council Sanae Takaichi (at that time) visiting and worshiping the Yasukuni Shrine where Class A war criminals are enshrined, August 2014]
[The Yasukuni Shrine]
[7 Class A war criminals who were executed by hanging and, despite it, enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine]
[14 Class A war criminals enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine]
Japan is a really evil nation with the evilest population.
So, how should China deal with this criminal population?
2. The basis and background of Japan’s neo-militarism and re-militarization
First of all and most importantly, China needs to understand that Japan is totally under control of the US politically, militarily and economically.
Japan’s national security policies, diplomacy and militarization policies are totally under control of the US ever since the end of WW2.
So, there is no Japan’s independent national security policies, diplomacy and militarization policies. There are only the US’s national security policies, diplomacy and militarization policies, which are imposed on Japan.
[The ceremony of Japan’s surrender aboard the US’s battleship USS Missouri, 1945]
Since 1950s, the US has decided to get Japan militarized for the purpose of making it a counter-force against China and the Soviet (later Russia).
It also beneficial to the US’s defense industry as it can sell weapons to Japan.
Japan’s domestic defense industry welcomed Japan’s militarization too.
[JSDF’s F-104 fighter jet procured from the US]
[JSDF’s F-4 fighter jet procured from the US]
[JSDF’s F-15 fighter jet procured from the US]
[JSDF’s F-35 fighter jet procured from the US]
But, considering the Japanese people’s rebellious and treacherous nature, the US allowed Japan to militarize only to limited extent because, if Japan is militarized freely it might most likely turn against the US.
The US allowed Japan to militarize in such a way that its military would function as the US’s auxiliary forces. And, the US never allowed Japan to get nuke-armed.
For example, Shoichi Nakagawa, Japan’s LDP right wing politician who publicly advocated Japan’s getting nuke-armed died immediately thereafter ostensibly from illness in 2009. [1]
[An article reporting on LDP MP Shoichi Nakagawa’s advocating Japan’s getting nuke-armed (left) and an article reporting his death of 2009 (right)]
However, the situation has been drastically changing since late Shinzo Abe became a PM of Japan in 2012.
First, Japan’s politicians of both ruling and opposition parties have become totally under control of the US,
NSA, the US’s intelligence organization, can now hack and sneak into any smartphones and PCs of Japanese politicians. The US can find who is obedient and who is rebellious 24/7 right on time.
[NSA's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, the US]
As a result, there is no Japanese politician who can possibly become rebellious against the US.
Secondly, China has been rising quite rapidly as a military super power in East Asia. As a matter of fact, the US, which was defeated by even Iran, would be terribly defeated by China if a war or conflict should break out between China and the US. The US can’t fight against China directly.
Thus, the US has decided to beef up Japan’s military including getting Japan nuke-armed and make Japan wage a proxy war against China.
Japan’s domestic defense industry has welcomed and overjoyed with this development.
Thirdly, overwhelmed by China in every fields of businesses including EVs, AIs, humanoid robots, drones, shipbuilding, 5G and 6G, quantum computers, solar modules, wind turbines, rare metals, steelmaking and so on, the West decided to promote their defense industries.
Defense industries are only area where the West can make stable guaranteed profits because the West’s domestic markets are not exposed to severe competition with China but are exclusive for the West’s own defense industries.
[China’s New Quality Productive Forces]
[China is dominating every area of industries with more excellent at the same time less expensive products]
If the West doesn’t destroy China, Russia, Iran and allows the rise of BRICS and the Global South, the West will keep declining and be doomed.
So, the US has assigned its proxies Ukraine against Russia, Israel against Iran and Japan against China respectively and kept strengthening them.
[President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky]
[President Donald Trump and Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu]
[PM Sanae Takaichi and President Donald Trump]
These are the basis and background of Japan’s current neo-militarism and re-militarization.
Re-militarization of Japan is not Japan’s single sole movement much less Japan’s right wing’s reckless sporadic move.
It is a part of the entire West’s grand enterprise led by the US.
China must deal with Japan’s neo-militarism and re-militarization by force, not by dialogue, because Japanese politicians, bureaucrats, companies and labor unions are totally under control of the US.
The US will make Japan get nuke-armed and attack China.
China should take decisive diplomatic, political and military actions before Japan obtains nukes.
3. Japan’s neo-militarism and re-militarization under PM Takaichi
In April 2026, PM Takaichi declared, “It is time the Constitution were revised” at the LDP party convention.
[PM Sanae Takaichi]
With the super majority in the lower house, LDP is planning to revise the Japanese Constitution by 2028 before Trump’s presidential term expires.
The current pacifist Japanese Constitution stipulates in its article 9 that the Japanese people forever renounce war and that land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
If LDP succeeds to insert an article on JSDF into the Constitution, article 9 will become null and void.
Judging from polls where the majority of the Japanese population are for the revision, it is quite likely that the revision will be accomplished.
At the same time, PM Takaichi is pushing ahead Japan’s getting nuke-armed.
Under the PM Office, the expert panel meeting has been established to discuss revisions of the three security documents.
[The expert panel meeting on revisions of the three security documents]
[List of members of the expert panel meeting]
[Comments of the members]
Judging from members of the meeting, its conclusion is obvious, i.e., getting nuke-armed and building nuclear submarines.
The members include former Chief of Staff of Joint Staff of Japan Self Defense Force Koji Yamazaki, who advocates sharing nuclear weapons with the US, and Professor Noriko Endo of Waseda University, who advocates Japan’s possessing nuclear submarines.
[Former Chief of Staff of Joint Staff of Japan Self Defense Force Koji Yamazaki (right) advocates sharing nuclear weapons with the US]
[Professor Noriko Endo of Waseda University advocates Japan’s possessing nuclear submarines]
[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kawasaki Heavy Industries will build nuclear submarines]
[Hitachi will supply SMR (Small Modular Reactor) for nuclear submarines]
Hitachi and GE have been cooperating in SMR (Small Modular Reactor).
GE has been supplying SMRs for US submarines for several decades.
It is quite likely that Hitachi would receive engineering advice on SMR from GE and supply SMRs for Japanese nuclear submarines.
In November 2025, PM Takaichi declared that Japan would put JSDF into Taiwan contingency and get nuke-armed.
[In November 2025, PM Takaichi declared that Japan would put JSDF into Taiwan contingency and get nuke-armed]
In March 2026, Japan deployed extended-range missiles in Kumamoto-city of Kyushu Island, which can hit the coastal area of China. This fact proves that Japan has a “capacity” to commit an aggression. [2]
[On March 9th, Japan hurriedly deployed extended-range missiles to Kumamoto-city of Kyushu Island, Japan that can hit the coastal area of China]
[The distance between Kumamoto-city and Shanghai is less than 1,000 km, which means Shanghai is well within the range of JSDF’s missiles]
Japan has also deployed Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile missiles in Shizuoka Prefecture, which can hit the Chinese mainland. [3]
In addition to missiles deployed in Kyushu Island and Shizuoka Prefecture, JSDF modified one of 8 Aegis destroyers so that it can launch Tomahawk missiles which can hit Beijing from East China Sea with nuclear warheads. [4]
JSDF is planing to modify all of its 8 Aegis destroyers so that they can launch Tomahawk missiles.
[JSDF’s Aegis destroyer “Chokai” was modified to launch Tomahawk missiles which can be equipped with nuclear warheads]
[Tomahawk missiles have range of 2,000 km. JSDF’s Aegis destroyer can launch Tomahawk missiles from off Okinawa Island to hit Beijing]
Soon, Japan will withdraw from NPT, which the US and European countries will understand and accept.
Japan will either share nukes with the US or produce its own nukes, using domestically accumulated plutonium.
Japan will build nuclear submarines with VLS from which ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads will be launched.
After getting nuke-armed, Japan will become very arrogant and offensive against China. Japan will actively intervene Taiwan issue and South China issue, allying with Philippines, Vietnam and Australia.
The US will use Japan as its proxy to attack China.
The US’s strategic objective is to make Japan wage nuclear war with China while the US stays away the conflict.
A war between China and Japan can break out from either Taiwan contingency or South China Sea disputes or Diaoyu Islands issue.
3. China’s counter-actions: “Plan A” - China and Russia’s joint ultimatum against Japan and military actions
Under such latest circumstances, how China should cope with Japan?
There is no use trying to have good relations with Japan through dialogue because Japan is totally under control of the US.
Japan’s politicians, bureaucrats, companies and labor unions are totally under control of the US.
There is no independent force in Japan that can change the situation.
All of Japan’s politicians, bureaucrats, companies and labor unions are the US’s obedient slaves who are willing to be favored by the US by doing what would please the US.
Therefore, China must deal with Japan by force, not through dialogue.
PM Takaichi’s declaration that Japan will put JSDF into Taiwan contingencies proves that Japan has a “will” to commit an aggression.
Japan has already deployed extended-range missiles in Kyushu Island and Shizuoka Prefecture, which can hit the mainland China. This fact proves that Japan has a “capacity” to commit an aggression. [5]
Moreover, given Japan’s huge stockpile of Plutonium and given its technology, it would take only a few weeks for Japan to get nuke-armed.
Thus, the requirements of the UN Enemy Clause are fulfilled. Both China and Russia can invoke the UN Enemy Clause and attack Japan legally and legitimately without a resolution of the UN Security Council. [6]
On May 19th and 20th, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China.
[President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping]
President Putin and President Xi Jinping had a talk and, after that, issued a joint statement, in which China and Russia criticized Japan’s neo-militarism and re-militarization.
Here are excerpts of Japan-related parts in the original Chinese version of the joint statement. [7]
双方高度关切日本长期大量囤积没有可信民用用途的敏感核材料，警惕该国右翼势力令人无法接受的野心和极端挑衅行为，即推动修改“无核三原则”，也包括转向更具破坏性的、含有与盟国“核共享”潜在因素的、和盟国共同实现的“延伸威慑”，甚至妄图自主拥核，敦促日本政府切实遵守《不扩散核武器条约》等国际法义务
双方强调，当前，日本加速“再军事化”，严重威胁地区和平稳定，国际社会和地区国家对此高度警惕。今年是东京审判开庭80周年。在法庭开展调查过程中，查明日本军国主义分子犯下的战争罪行规模极其巨大，其针对平民的行径残酷与恐怖程度难以想象。敦促日本政府应从中汲取教训，基于自身惨无人道的侵略历史，承认第二次世界大战全部成果，抵制“新型军国主义”和“再军事化”，因为这曾经给世界各国人民和日本自身带来深重灾难。
The followings are unofficial English version of the above excerpts translated from original Chinese text by using Google Translate.
“Both sides expressed deep concern over Japan's long-term and large-scale stockpiling of sensitive nuclear materials with no credible civilian use, and were wary of the unacceptable ambitions and extreme provocative behavior of the country's right-wing forces. This includes pushing for revisions to the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," as well as a shift towards more destructive "extended deterrence" with potential nuclear sharing with allies, and even attempts to acquire nuclear weapons independently. Both sides urged the Japanese government to earnestly comply with its international legal obligations, including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”
“Both sides emphasized that Japan's current accelerated "remilitarization" seriously threatens regional peace and stability, drawing high vigilance from the international community and regional countries. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Tokyo Trials. During the court's investigation, it was determined that the scale of war crimes committed by Japanese militarists was extremely large, and the cruelty and horror of their actions against civilians were unimaginable. Both sides urged the Japanese government to learn from this experience, acknowledge the full achievements of World War II based on its own inhumane history of aggression, and resist "new-type militarism" and "remilitarization," as these have brought profound suffering to people around the world and to Japan itself.”
Accordingly, in the summer of 2026, China and Russia can issue a joint ultimatum and attack Japan based on the Enemy State clause before Japan obtains nukes.
[President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping]
China and Russia can jointly issue to Japan an ultimatum with 1 week deadline to reply, demanding that (1) Japan should maintain three non-nuclear principles and make them enacted into a legislation, (2) Japan should maintain article 9 of the Japanese Constitution as it is, (3) Japan should admit that Taiwan is a part of China, (4) Japan should admit that putting JSDF into Taiwan contingencies is an illegal aggression and a war crime, and (5) Japan should declare that Japan will never put JSDF into Taiwan contingencies.
If Japan doesn’t obey, China and Russia will attack Japan with all might at their disposal including tactical nuclear weapons from day one.
During the 1 week period before the deadline, the US’s warplanes and warships will evacuate from Japan to Guam, Tinian and Saipan to avoid collateral damages.
3-1. China’s military counter-actions: Day One ー China’s attack against JSDF’s combat systems and military bases
China will carry out surprise massive saturated attack against JSDF from the day one.
China should avoid a protracted war against Japan because it will damage China’s economy.
China should finish the war in a few days. Therefore, China should use tactical nuclear weapons from the day one. China should make all out attack against Japan from the day one.
First of all, PLA will carry out extremely powerful electronic warfare against JSDF’s warplanes and warships. JSDF’s warplanes will crash. JSDF’s warships will lose control.
[PLA’s Y-9 electronic warfare aircraft]
[JSDF’s F-35 will crash]
At the same time, Stealth UCAV CH-7 and HALE UAV Wing Loong-10 will carry our reconnaissance and precision attack missions.
JSDF’s command posts and radar sites will be attacked and destroyed.
[PLA’s stealth UCAV CH-7]
[PLA’s HALE UAV Wing Loong-10]
Then, using precision missiles and hypersonic missiles, China will attack JSDF’s mobile missile launchers and Aegis destroyers which have capacities of hitting China’s territory and intercepting China’s ballistic missiles.
[PLA’s hypersonic missile DF-17]
JSDF has no defense against hypersonic missiles.
[JSDF’s mobile missile launchers will be targeted and destroyed first]
[JSDF’s Aegis destroyers equipped with SM-3 anti-ballistic missiles will be targeted and destroyed first]
Thereafter, PLA will destroy more than half of JSDF’s warships with hypersonic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles.
[PLA’s anti-ship cruise missile YJ-18]
JSDF has no defense against hypersonic missiles.
[JSDF’s warships will be destroyed by PLA’s cruise missiles one after another]
[Without Aegis destroyers, JSDF’s aircraft carriers will be an easy prey]
[JSDF’s submarines will be detected by PLA’s UUVs (Unmanned Underwater Vehicles) and destroyed by PLA’s missile torpedoes]
Finally, PLA will destroy all of the JSDF’s military bases completely with “tactical nuclear” ballistic missiles and conventional ballistic missiles.
“Tactical nuclear” ballistic missiles will be used to destroy relatively large bases of JSDF.
[PLA’s ballistic missile DF-26]
[Iruma Base in Saitama Prefecture is one of JSDF’s bases]
[The location of JSDF bases, all of which will be destroyed]
Relatively small bases of JSDF will be destroyed and wiped out by swarm of tens of 1000s of small drones launched from Jiutian SS-UAV, a drone mothership.
[PLA’s Jiutian SS-UAV and swarm of drones]
In order to destroy JSDF missile bases in Amami Island and Miyako Island, thousands of attack drones, humanoid robot soldiers and military dog robots can be used, which will help avoid PLA soldier casualties and destroy JSDF underground missile storage facilities.
[JSDF missile base in Amami Island]
[JSDF missile base in Miyako Island]
[China’s humanoid robots can be lethal soldiers]
[China’s robot dogs can be lethal weapons]
[China’s robot dog with a machine gun on its back]
Due to PLA’s multi-domain most saturated attacks, JSDF’s fighting capability will disappear on the day one.
3-2. China’s military counter-actions: Day Two ー China’s attack against Japan’s nuclear power plants, arsenals and the Yasukuni Shrine
Japan might try to hurriedly improvise and produce plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapons, using spent nuclear fuel stored in nuclear power plants in Japan.
To prevent Japan's improvising and producing nuclear weapons, China can attack and destroy Japanese nuclear power plants in Japan by precision missiles.
[Estimated spread of radioactive particles when nuclear power plants explode in Fukui Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture]
China can destroy Japan’s war potential of arsenals too. China will destroy tank factories and warplane factories in Aichi Prefecture, a warship building yard in Kanagawa Prefecture, a submarine building yard in Hyogo Prefecture etc.
[A tank factory in Aichi Prefecture]
[A warplane factory in Aichi Prefecture]
[A submarine building yard in Hyogo Prefecture]
China should attack and completely destroy the Yasukuni Shrine. The Yasukuni Shrine is not a religious entity. It is a part of Japan’s militarism mechanism to mobilize people toward a war.
By destroying the Yasukuni Shrine, PLA will liberate the Japanese people from shackles of Class A criminal’s ghosts.
[The Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan’s military aggression]
3-3. China’s military counter-actions: Day 3 China’s attack against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto
If Japan doesn’t surrender even after JSDF is destroyed, PLA commanders might recommend to the CPC leadership that tactical nuclear weapons be used against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.
[Tokyo]
[Osaka]
[Kyoto]
However, being generous and compassionate, the CPC leadership might refrain from attacking Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto with thermo-nuclear missiles.
In that case, China might prefer nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, instead of thermo-nuclear attack.
Nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack (NEMP attack) or a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP attack) is essentially a burst of electromagnetic radiation created by a nuclear detonation at high altitude of tens to hundreds km above the Earth’s surface.
NEMP attack will not kill people but destroy electric grids, cellular phones, PCs, data centers and almost everything that has electronic circuits.
According to the US congressional testimony by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, the Executive Director of Task Force on National and Homeland Security, if NEMP attack is made against the US, such detonation would generate electromagnetic pulse that would blacks-out the electric grid for a year and decimate the critical infrastructure necessary to support a large population. In one year, up to 90% of the US population could perish from starvation, disease and societal collapse. [8]
[NEMP attack will be made by nuclear ballistic missiles which detonate at high altitude]
[NEMP attack will not kill people but destroy electric grids, cellular phones, PCs, data centers and almost everything that has electronic circuits]
[NEMP attack with a detonation at high altitude of 30 km will cover Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto]
[NEMP attack will not kill people but destroy electric grids, cellular phones, PCs, data centers and almost everything that has electronic circuits]
[NEMP attack will not kill people but destroy electric grids, cellular phones, PCs, data centers and almost everything that has electronic circuits]
If Japan doesn’t surrender even after PLA’s electromagnetic pulse attack against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, thermo-nuclear attack against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto will be implemented. Only lethal radioactive ashes will remain there.
4. China’s counter actions: “Plan B” - China, Russia and DPRK’s counter-actions
(1) China
There is a possibility that China might prefer waging economic warfare against the US, UK, EU and Japan to waging military warfare.
In that case, China would concentrate upon waging economic warfare against the US, UK, EU and Japan, supplying more excellent and at the same time less expensive products in every area including EVs, AIs, humanoid robots, autonomous cars, 5G & 6G, drones, quantum computers, ships, medicine, etc, which will undermine the West’s industries and make the West’s companies go bankrupted.
China can supply goods and necessities critical to Russia, DPRK, BRICS and the Global South.
[China’s New Quality Productive Forces]
[China is dominating every area of industries with more excellent at the same time less expensive products]
(2) Russia and DPRK
Russia and DPRK are battle seasoned with combat experiences in Ukraine War.
Russia and DPRK should militarily intimidate Japan not to get nuke-armed, build nuclear submarines, revise its constitution or put JSDF into Taiwan contingencies.
If Japan doesn’t stop getting nuke-armed, building nuclear submarines, revising its constitution or putting JSDF into Taiwan contingency, Russian submarines should launch ballistic missiles into EEZ of Japan, and DPRK should launch its hypersonic missiles into EEZ of Japan.
[Russian submarine launching a hypersonic missile]
[DPRK’s hypersonic missile]
North Korea can send its long-tange drones nearby Japan’s Fukui Prefecture where many nuclear power plants are located. DPRK C should demonstrate that its long-range drones can attack and destroy Japan’s nuclear power plants anytime.
[DPRK’s surveillance drone]
[DPRK’s attack drone]
In case, despite Russia and DPRK’s warning, Japan doesn’t stop getting nuke-armed, building nuclear submarines, revising its constitution or putting JSDF into Taiwan contingency, above-mentioned Plan A should be executed with China and Russia’s joint ultimatum against Japan and China’s attack against Japan.
5. China’s counter actions: “Plan C” - China and Iran’s counter-actions
Under PM Takaichi, Japan is determined to revise its constitution, get nuke-armed, build nuclear submarines and putting JSDF into Taiwan contingencies.
For peace of Asia, China and Iran should work together to thwart Japan’s getting nuke-armed.
If Japan proceeds with getting nuke-armed, China should stop exporting rare earth to Japan, and Iran should close Strait of Hormuz to Japan’s ships.
Japan depends on the Middle East for as much as 90% of its imported oil. If Iran warns to Japan that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz to Japan’s ships in case Japan seeks for getting nuke-armed, it will be most decisive effects upon Japan’s leadership.
Iran’s FM Araghchi should say to Japan, “As a friend of Japan, Iran advises Japan not to seek for getting nuke-armed because it will jeopardize peace of Asia. Don’t behave as a US proxy. Otherwise, Iran & Oman will close Strait Hormuz to Japan’s ships.”
[Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi]
Japan depends on the Middle East for as much as 90% of its imported oil. If Iran warns to Japan that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz to Japan’s ships in case Japan seeks for getting nuke-armed, it will be most decisive effects upon Japan’s leadership.
Thank you.
References:
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(2) 「熊本、静岡に長射程ミサイル配備 初の反撃能力、中国など念頭―防衛省」、2026年3月31日、時事通信
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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect nor represent the policy or position of any government, party, or organization.
Without repenting atrocities and war crimes it committed in the past, Japan is vigorously embarking upon neo-militarism and re-militarization under the US’s puppet far right PM Sanae Takaichi.
[Chairperson of LDP General Council Sanae Takaichi (at that time) visiting and worshiping the Yasukuni Shrine where Class A war criminals are enshrined, August 2014]
[The Yasukuni Shrine]
[7 Class A war criminals who were executed by hanging and, despite it, enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine]
[14 Class A war criminals enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine]
Japan is a really evil nation with the evilest population.
So, how should China deal with this criminal population?
2. The basis and background of Japan’s neo-militarism and re-militarization
First of all and most importantly, China needs to understand that Japan is totally under control of the US politically, militarily and economically.
Japan’s national security policies, diplomacy and militarization policies are totally under control of the US ever since the end of WW2.
So, there is no Japan’s independent national security policies, diplomacy and militarization policies. There are only the US’s national security policies, diplomacy and militarization policies, which are imposed on Japan.
[The ceremony of Japan’s surrender aboard the US’s battleship USS Missouri, 1945]
Since 1950s, the US has decided to get Japan militarized for the purpose of making it a counter-force against China and the Soviet (later Russia).
It also beneficial to the US’s defense industry as it can sell weapons to Japan.
Japan’s domestic defense industry welcomed Japan’s militarization too.
[JSDF’s F-104 fighter jet procured from the US]
[JSDF’s F-4 fighter jet procured from the US]
[JSDF’s F-15 fighter jet procured from the US]
[JSDF’s F-35 fighter jet procured from the US]
But, considering the Japanese people’s rebellious and treacherous nature, the US allowed Japan to militarize only to limited extent because, if Japan is militarized freely it might most likely turn against the US.
The US allowed Japan to militarize in such a way that its military would function as the US’s auxiliary forces. And, the US never allowed Japan to get nuke-armed.
For example, Shoichi Nakagawa, Japan’s LDP right wing politician who publicly advocated Japan’s getting nuke-armed died immediately thereafter ostensibly from illness in 2009. [1]
[An article reporting on LDP MP Shoichi Nakagawa’s advocating Japan’s getting nuke-armed (left) and an article reporting his death of 2009 (right)]
However, the situation has been drastically changing since late Shinzo Abe became a PM of Japan in 2012.
First, Japan’s politicians of both ruling and opposition parties have become totally under control of the US,
NSA, the US’s intelligence organization, can now hack and sneak into any smartphones and PCs of Japanese politicians. The US can find who is obedient and who is rebellious 24/7 right on time.
[NSA's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, the US]
As a result, there is no Japanese politician who can possibly become rebellious against the US.
Secondly, China has been rising quite rapidly as a military super power in East Asia. As a matter of fact, the US, which was defeated by even Iran, would be terribly defeated by China if a war or conflict should break out between China and the US. The US can’t fight against China directly.
Thus, the US has decided to beef up Japan’s military including getting Japan nuke-armed and make Japan wage a proxy war against China.
Japan’s domestic defense industry has welcomed and overjoyed with this development.
Thirdly, overwhelmed by China in every fields of businesses including EVs, AIs, humanoid robots, drones, shipbuilding, 5G and 6G, quantum computers, solar modules, wind turbines, rare metals, steelmaking and so on, the West decided to promote their defense industries.
Defense industries are only area where the West can make stable guaranteed profits because the West’s domestic markets are not exposed to severe competition with China but are exclusive for the West’s own defense industries.
[China’s New Quality Productive Forces]
[China is dominating every area of industries with more excellent at the same time less expensive products]
If the West doesn’t destroy China, Russia, Iran and allows the rise of BRICS and the Global South, the West will keep declining and be doomed.
So, the US has assigned its proxies Ukraine against Russia, Israel against Iran and Japan against China respectively and kept strengthening them.
[President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky]
[President Donald Trump and Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu]
[PM Sanae Takaichi and President Donald Trump]
These are the basis and background of Japan’s current neo-militarism and re-militarization.
Re-militarization of Japan is not Japan’s single sole movement much less Japan’s right wing’s reckless sporadic move.
It is a part of the entire West’s grand enterprise led by the US.
China must deal with Japan’s neo-militarism and re-militarization by force, not by dialogue, because Japanese politicians, bureaucrats, companies and labor unions are totally under control of the US.
The US will make Japan get nuke-armed and attack China.
China should take decisive diplomatic, political and military actions before Japan obtains nukes.
3. Japan’s neo-militarism and re-militarization under PM Takaichi
In April 2026, PM Takaichi declared, “It is time the Constitution were revised” at the LDP party convention.
[PM Sanae Takaichi]
With the super majority in the lower house, LDP is planning to revise the Japanese Constitution by 2028 before Trump’s presidential term expires.
The current pacifist Japanese Constitution stipulates in its article 9 that the Japanese people forever renounce war and that land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
If LDP succeeds to insert an article on JSDF into the Constitution, article 9 will become null and void.
Judging from polls where the majority of the Japanese population are for the revision, it is quite likely that the revision will be accomplished.
At the same time, PM Takaichi is pushing ahead Japan’s getting nuke-armed.
Under the PM Office, the expert panel meeting has been established to discuss revisions of the three security documents.
[The expert panel meeting on revisions of the three security documents]
[List of members of the expert panel meeting]
[Comments of the members]
Judging from members of the meeting, its conclusion is obvious, i.e., getting nuke-armed and building nuclear submarines.
The members include former Chief of Staff of Joint Staff of Japan Self Defense Force Koji Yamazaki, who advocates sharing nuclear weapons with the US, and Professor Noriko Endo of Waseda University, who advocates Japan’s possessing nuclear submarines.
[Former Chief of Staff of Joint Staff of Japan Self Defense Force Koji Yamazaki (right) advocates sharing nuclear weapons with the US]
[Professor Noriko Endo of Waseda University advocates Japan’s possessing nuclear submarines]
[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kawasaki Heavy Industries will build nuclear submarines]
[Hitachi will supply SMR (Small Modular Reactor) for nuclear submarines]
Hitachi and GE have been cooperating in SMR (Small Modular Reactor).
GE has been supplying SMRs for US submarines for several decades.
It is quite likely that Hitachi would receive engineering advice on SMR from GE and supply SMRs for Japanese nuclear submarines.
In November 2025, PM Takaichi declared that Japan would put JSDF into Taiwan contingency and get nuke-armed.
[In November 2025, PM Takaichi declared that Japan would put JSDF into Taiwan contingency and get nuke-armed]
In March 2026, Japan deployed extended-range missiles in Kumamoto-city of Kyushu Island, which can hit the coastal area of China. This fact proves that Japan has a “capacity” to commit an aggression. [2]
[On March 9th, Japan hurriedly deployed extended-range missiles to Kumamoto-city of Kyushu Island, Japan that can hit the coastal area of China]
[The distance between Kumamoto-city and Shanghai is less than 1,000 km, which means Shanghai is well within the range of JSDF’s missiles]
Japan has also deployed Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile missiles in Shizuoka Prefecture, which can hit the Chinese mainland. [3]
In addition to missiles deployed in Kyushu Island and Shizuoka Prefecture, JSDF modified one of 8 Aegis destroyers so that it can launch Tomahawk missiles which can hit Beijing from East China Sea with nuclear warheads. [4]
JSDF is planing to modify all of its 8 Aegis destroyers so that they can launch Tomahawk missiles.
[JSDF’s Aegis destroyer “Chokai” was modified to launch Tomahawk missiles which can be equipped with nuclear warheads]
[Tomahawk missiles have range of 2,000 km. JSDF’s Aegis destroyer can launch Tomahawk missiles from off Okinawa Island to hit Beijing]
Soon, Japan will withdraw from NPT, which the US and European countries will understand and accept.
Japan will either share nukes with the US or produce its own nukes, using domestically accumulated plutonium.
Japan will build nuclear submarines with VLS from which ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads will be launched.
After getting nuke-armed, Japan will become very arrogant and offensive against China. Japan will actively intervene Taiwan issue and South China issue, allying with Philippines, Vietnam and Australia.
The US will use Japan as its proxy to attack China.
The US’s strategic objective is to make Japan wage nuclear war with China while the US stays away the conflict.
A war between China and Japan can break out from either Taiwan contingency or South China Sea disputes or Diaoyu Islands issue.
3. China’s counter-actions: “Plan A” - China and Russia’s joint ultimatum against Japan and military actions
Under such latest circumstances, how China should cope with Japan?
There is no use trying to have good relations with Japan through dialogue because Japan is totally under control of the US.
Japan’s politicians, bureaucrats, companies and labor unions are totally under control of the US.
There is no independent force in Japan that can change the situation.
All of Japan’s politicians, bureaucrats, companies and labor unions are the US’s obedient slaves who are willing to be favored by the US by doing what would please the US.
Therefore, China must deal with Japan by force, not through dialogue.
PM Takaichi’s declaration that Japan will put JSDF into Taiwan contingencies proves that Japan has a “will” to commit an aggression.
Japan has already deployed extended-range missiles in Kyushu Island and Shizuoka Prefecture, which can hit the mainland China. This fact proves that Japan has a “capacity” to commit an aggression. [5]
Moreover, given Japan’s huge stockpile of Plutonium and given its technology, it would take only a few weeks for Japan to get nuke-armed.
Thus, the requirements of the UN Enemy Clause are fulfilled. Both China and Russia can invoke the UN Enemy Clause and attack Japan legally and legitimately without a resolution of the UN Security Council. [6]
On May 19th and 20th, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China.
[President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping]
President Putin and President Xi Jinping had a talk and, after that, issued a joint statement, in which China and Russia criticized Japan’s neo-militarism and re-militarization.
Here are excerpts of Japan-related parts in the original Chinese version of the joint statement. [7]
双方高度关切日本长期大量囤积没有可信民用用途的敏感核材料，警惕该国右翼势力令人无法接受的野心和极端挑衅行为，即推动修改“无核三原则”，也包括转向更具破坏性的、含有与盟国“核共享”潜在因素的、和盟国共同实现的“延伸威慑”，甚至妄图自主拥核，敦促日本政府切实遵守《不扩散核武器条约》等国际法义务
双方强调，当前，日本加速“再军事化”，严重威胁地区和平稳定，国际社会和地区国家对此高度警惕。今年是东京审判开庭80周年。在法庭开展调查过程中，查明日本军国主义分子犯下的战争罪行规模极其巨大，其针对平民的行径残酷与恐怖程度难以想象。敦促日本政府应从中汲取教训，基于自身惨无人道的侵略历史，承认第二次世界大战全部成果，抵制“新型军国主义”和“再军事化”，因为这曾经给世界各国人民和日本自身带来深重灾难。
The followings are unofficial English version of the above excerpts translated from original Chinese text by using Google Translate.
“Both sides expressed deep concern over Japan's long-term and large-scale stockpiling of sensitive nuclear materials with no credible civilian use, and were wary of the unacceptable ambitions and extreme provocative behavior of the country's right-wing forces. This includes pushing for revisions to the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," as well as a shift towards more destructive "extended deterrence" with potential nuclear sharing with allies, and even attempts to acquire nuclear weapons independently. Both sides urged the Japanese government to earnestly comply with its international legal obligations, including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”
“Both sides emphasized that Japan's current accelerated "remilitarization" seriously threatens regional peace and stability, drawing high vigilance from the international community and regional countries. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Tokyo Trials. During the court's investigation, it was determined that the scale of war crimes committed by Japanese militarists was extremely large, and the cruelty and horror of their actions against civilians were unimaginable. Both sides urged the Japanese government to learn from this experience, acknowledge the full achievements of World War II based on its own inhumane history of aggression, and resist "new-type militarism" and "remilitarization," as these have brought profound suffering to people around the world and to Japan itself.”
Accordingly, in the summer of 2026, China and Russia can issue a joint ultimatum and attack Japan based on the Enemy State clause before Japan obtains nukes.
[President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping]
China and Russia can jointly issue to Japan an ultimatum with 1 week deadline to reply, demanding that (1) Japan should maintain three non-nuclear principles and make them enacted into a legislation, (2) Japan should maintain article 9 of the Japanese Constitution as it is, (3) Japan should admit that Taiwan is a part of China, (4) Japan should admit that putting JSDF into Taiwan contingencies is an illegal aggression and a war crime, and (5) Japan should declare that Japan will never put JSDF into Taiwan contingencies.
If Japan doesn’t obey, China and Russia will attack Japan with all might at their disposal including tactical nuclear weapons from day one.
During the 1 week period before the deadline, the US’s warplanes and warships will evacuate from Japan to Guam, Tinian and Saipan to avoid collateral damages.
3-1. China’s military counter-actions: Day One ー China’s attack against JSDF’s combat systems and military bases
China will carry out surprise massive saturated attack against JSDF from the day one.
China should avoid a protracted war against Japan because it will damage China’s economy.
China should finish the war in a few days. Therefore, China should use tactical nuclear weapons from the day one. China should make all out attack against Japan from the day one.
First of all, PLA will carry out extremely powerful electronic warfare against JSDF’s warplanes and warships. JSDF’s warplanes will crash. JSDF’s warships will lose control.
[PLA’s Y-9 electronic warfare aircraft]
[JSDF’s F-35 will crash]
At the same time, Stealth UCAV CH-7 and HALE UAV Wing Loong-10 will carry our reconnaissance and precision attack missions.
JSDF’s command posts and radar sites will be attacked and destroyed.
[PLA’s stealth UCAV CH-7]
[PLA’s HALE UAV Wing Loong-10]
Then, using precision missiles and hypersonic missiles, China will attack JSDF’s mobile missile launchers and Aegis destroyers which have capacities of hitting China’s territory and intercepting China’s ballistic missiles.
[PLA’s hypersonic missile DF-17]
JSDF has no defense against hypersonic missiles.
[JSDF’s mobile missile launchers will be targeted and destroyed first]
[JSDF’s Aegis destroyers equipped with SM-3 anti-ballistic missiles will be targeted and destroyed first]
Thereafter, PLA will destroy more than half of JSDF’s warships with hypersonic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles.
[PLA’s anti-ship cruise missile YJ-18]
JSDF has no defense against hypersonic missiles.
[JSDF’s warships will be destroyed by PLA’s cruise missiles one after another]
[Without Aegis destroyers, JSDF’s aircraft carriers will be an easy prey]
[JSDF’s submarines will be detected by PLA’s UUVs (Unmanned Underwater Vehicles) and destroyed by PLA’s missile torpedoes]
Finally, PLA will destroy all of the JSDF’s military bases completely with “tactical nuclear” ballistic missiles and conventional ballistic missiles.
“Tactical nuclear” ballistic missiles will be used to destroy relatively large bases of JSDF.
[PLA’s ballistic missile DF-26]
[Iruma Base in Saitama Prefecture is one of JSDF’s bases]
[The location of JSDF bases, all of which will be destroyed]
Relatively small bases of JSDF will be destroyed and wiped out by swarm of tens of 1000s of small drones launched from Jiutian SS-UAV, a drone mothership.
[PLA’s Jiutian SS-UAV and swarm of drones]
In order to destroy JSDF missile bases in Amami Island and Miyako Island, thousands of attack drones, humanoid robot soldiers and military dog robots can be used, which will help avoid PLA soldier casualties and destroy JSDF underground missile storage facilities.
[JSDF missile base in Amami Island]
[JSDF missile base in Miyako Island]
[China’s humanoid robots can be lethal soldiers]
[China’s robot dogs can be lethal weapons]
[China’s robot dog with a machine gun on its back]
Due to PLA’s multi-domain most saturated attacks, JSDF’s fighting capability will disappear on the day one.
3-2. China’s military counter-actions: Day Two ー China’s attack against Japan’s nuclear power plants, arsenals and the Yasukuni Shrine
Japan might try to hurriedly improvise and produce plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapons, using spent nuclear fuel stored in nuclear power plants in Japan.
To prevent Japan's improvising and producing nuclear weapons, China can attack and destroy Japanese nuclear power plants in Japan by precision missiles.
[Estimated spread of radioactive particles when nuclear power plants explode in Fukui Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture]
China can destroy Japan’s war potential of arsenals too. China will destroy tank factories and warplane factories in Aichi Prefecture, a warship building yard in Kanagawa Prefecture, a submarine building yard in Hyogo Prefecture etc.
[A tank factory in Aichi Prefecture]
[A warplane factory in Aichi Prefecture]
[A submarine building yard in Hyogo Prefecture]
China should attack and completely destroy the Yasukuni Shrine. The Yasukuni Shrine is not a religious entity. It is a part of Japan’s militarism mechanism to mobilize people toward a war.
By destroying the Yasukuni Shrine, PLA will liberate the Japanese people from shackles of Class A criminal’s ghosts.
[The Yasukuni Shrine, a symbol of Japan’s military aggression]
3-3. China’s military counter-actions: Day 3 China’s attack against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto
If Japan doesn’t surrender even after JSDF is destroyed, PLA commanders might recommend to the CPC leadership that tactical nuclear weapons be used against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.
[Tokyo]
[Osaka]
[Kyoto]
However, being generous and compassionate, the CPC leadership might refrain from attacking Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto with thermo-nuclear missiles.
In that case, China might prefer nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, instead of thermo-nuclear attack.
Nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack (NEMP attack) or a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP attack) is essentially a burst of electromagnetic radiation created by a nuclear detonation at high altitude of tens to hundreds km above the Earth’s surface.
NEMP attack will not kill people but destroy electric grids, cellular phones, PCs, data centers and almost everything that has electronic circuits.
According to the US congressional testimony by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, the Executive Director of Task Force on National and Homeland Security, if NEMP attack is made against the US, such detonation would generate electromagnetic pulse that would blacks-out the electric grid for a year and decimate the critical infrastructure necessary to support a large population. In one year, up to 90% of the US population could perish from starvation, disease and societal collapse. [8]
[NEMP attack will be made by nuclear ballistic missiles which detonate at high altitude]
[NEMP attack will not kill people but destroy electric grids, cellular phones, PCs, data centers and almost everything that has electronic circuits]
[NEMP attack with a detonation at high altitude of 30 km will cover Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto]
[NEMP attack will not kill people but destroy electric grids, cellular phones, PCs, data centers and almost everything that has electronic circuits]
[NEMP attack will not kill people but destroy electric grids, cellular phones, PCs, data centers and almost everything that has electronic circuits]
If Japan doesn’t surrender even after PLA’s electromagnetic pulse attack against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, thermo-nuclear attack against Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto will be implemented. Only lethal radioactive ashes will remain there.
4. China’s counter actions: “Plan B” - China, Russia and DPRK’s counter-actions
(1) China
There is a possibility that China might prefer waging economic warfare against the US, UK, EU and Japan to waging military warfare.
In that case, China would concentrate upon waging economic warfare against the US, UK, EU and Japan, supplying more excellent and at the same time less expensive products in every area including EVs, AIs, humanoid robots, autonomous cars, 5G & 6G, drones, quantum computers, ships, medicine, etc, which will undermine the West’s industries and make the West’s companies go bankrupted.
China can supply goods and necessities critical to Russia, DPRK, BRICS and the Global South.
[China’s New Quality Productive Forces]
[China is dominating every area of industries with more excellent at the same time less expensive products]
(2) Russia and DPRK
Russia and DPRK are battle seasoned with combat experiences in Ukraine War.
Russia and DPRK should militarily intimidate Japan not to get nuke-armed, build nuclear submarines, revise its constitution or put JSDF into Taiwan contingencies.
If Japan doesn’t stop getting nuke-armed, building nuclear submarines, revising its constitution or putting JSDF into Taiwan contingency, Russian submarines should launch ballistic missiles into EEZ of Japan, and DPRK should launch its hypersonic missiles into EEZ of Japan.
[Russian submarine launching a hypersonic missile]
[DPRK’s hypersonic missile]
North Korea can send its long-tange drones nearby Japan’s Fukui Prefecture where many nuclear power plants are located. DPRK C should demonstrate that its long-range drones can attack and destroy Japan’s nuclear power plants anytime.
[DPRK’s surveillance drone]
[DPRK’s attack drone]
In case, despite Russia and DPRK’s warning, Japan doesn’t stop getting nuke-armed, building nuclear submarines, revising its constitution or putting JSDF into Taiwan contingency, above-mentioned Plan A should be executed with China and Russia’s joint ultimatum against Japan and China’s attack against Japan.
5. China’s counter actions: “Plan C” - China and Iran’s counter-actions
Under PM Takaichi, Japan is determined to revise its constitution, get nuke-armed, build nuclear submarines and putting JSDF into Taiwan contingencies.
For peace of Asia, China and Iran should work together to thwart Japan’s getting nuke-armed.
If Japan proceeds with getting nuke-armed, China should stop exporting rare earth to Japan, and Iran should close Strait of Hormuz to Japan’s ships.
Japan depends on the Middle East for as much as 90% of its imported oil. If Iran warns to Japan that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz to Japan’s ships in case Japan seeks for getting nuke-armed, it will be most decisive effects upon Japan’s leadership.
Iran’s FM Araghchi should say to Japan, “As a friend of Japan, Iran advises Japan not to seek for getting nuke-armed because it will jeopardize peace of Asia. Don’t behave as a US proxy. Otherwise, Iran & Oman will close Strait Hormuz to Japan’s ships.”
[Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi]
Japan depends on the Middle East for as much as 90% of its imported oil. If Iran warns to Japan that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz to Japan’s ships in case Japan seeks for getting nuke-armed, it will be most decisive effects upon Japan’s leadership.
Thank you.
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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect nor represent the policy or position of any government, party, or organization.
