Self-Defense Force

The SDF, the Japanese army after the Second World War. In Postwar Japanese Constitution Article 9, the Japanese gave up the war and promised that they would never maintain the land, sea or air force. Therefore, the rearmament of Japan in the 1950s was the right of self-defense. In 1950, a small military force called National Police Nature Reserve was established; this became the 1952 National Security Force and the SDF in 1954. On the surface, it will never be used either outside of Japan or in the waters, so the participation of the SDF in peacekeeping operations and rescue activities of the United Nations, especially during the Second World War, which was the victim of aggression, . Between countries

The SDF conducted overseas activities such as dispatching the UN Peacekeeping Army to Cambodia. In 2003, Japan enacted laws to deal with armed attacks and amended the Self-Defense Forces Law. In 2004, Japan sent two years and a half to Samawa district in the southern part of Iraq under special measures to restore Iraq support. The Japan Maritime Self - Defense Force deployed troops on the coast of Somalia to protect Japan 's ship from Somali pirates. The unit consists of two destroyers (about 400 seafarers), a tour helicopter, a speed boat, eight guards collecting criminal evidence to handle pirate suspects, units from the elite special boarding team, and P-3 It has been. Orion patrol machine in the Gulf of Aden. On June 19, 2009, Japanese parliament finally passed a piracy prevention bill allowing its troops to protect foreign ships.

On September 18, 2015, the National Assembly enacted the Japanese military law in 2015. This is a series of laws that allow the SDF of Japan to defend allies altogether according to the Constitution. The SDF can provide important support to allies involved in international warfare. It also enables the SDF to defend the foreign weapons platform that contributes to Japan's defense. The reason is that if you do not protect or support the allies, we will weaken the alliance and put Japan at risk. This is the biggest change in Japan's defense law since World War II.

Japan continues to improve its defense capabilities. On July 1, 1954, the National Security Council was reorganized into the Department of Defense, after which the Department of Defense was reorganized into the Army SDF (Army), the Maritime Self Defense Force (Navy), the Air Force SDF (Air Force). For the first chairman of the Joint Staff Committee - a pro chief of three branches. The approval law on this point is the SDF law of 1954.