| Précis | Young Japanese fighter pilot Sho Yoshida drills to get himself and his F15 jet-fighter ready in 5 minutes. In the air from Okinawa, he can be over his neighbourhood's biggest flashpoint in 20 minutes. Japan's hold on the Senkaku islands is being disputed and occasionally challenged by China. Japan's not going to give them up lying down. |
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| "As I don't know the purpose and intention of unidentified aircraft approaching our air space, I always become tense." SHO YOSHIDA - Fighter Pilot, Japan SDF |
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| In Tokyo Harbour, the destroyer Myoko is tied-up dockside. But even standing still it's a lethal war machine. On board, the Combat Information Centre is a super-sophisticated response room - its super-computers can read threats and respond to scores of them within 500 kilometres, all at the same time. A barrage of nearly 100 missiles can be despatched within minutes. |
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| At Japan's elite military college enrolments are at record levels and a recruitment campaign pitching military service as cool is helping to attract large numbers of new recruits. |
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| In the old days, the Self Defence Force (personnel) were seen as tax thieves who did nothing. But through disaster relief and international contributions their role has
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| Legally, Japan's military is strictly charged with defending the nation, not attacking others. Increasingly though that constitutional decree is being massaged and manipulated. |
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| The government of Shinzo Abe is endeavouring to reinterpret the constitution and put Japan's military on an offensive footing. |
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| The moves are being propelled by what Japan's leadership sees as pushy Chinese territorialism and a wildly unpredictable North Korea. |
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| North-Asia Correspondent Matt Carney has secured carte blanche access some of Japan's most fearsome and sophisticated military installations at a key time for the nation. Militarism is on the march and extreme nationalism is coat-tailing it. |
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| "The SDF is lacking capability to attack enemy countries. Therefore unless it has the power to strike, it cannot become a so called deterrent power." TOSHIO TAMOGAMI Former SDF Air Force General |
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| Overwhelmingly though, Japanese young and old are opposed to moves transforming their military into aggressors. Among those with long memories is Tadamasa Iwai - a WW2 vet who became a pacifist. |
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| "The pre-war system is simply a system that dragged people into war. People couldn't criticize or oppose it. Prime Minister Abe is trying to revive this (system)" TADAMASA IWAI WW2 veteran
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| Okinawa air base. Sho undertaking drill | Music | 00:00 |
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| CARNEY: At Naha airbase in Okinawa on the southern tip of Japan, young pilot Sho Yoshida is in a drill to get airborne as quickly as possible. He's got five minutes. | 00:04 |
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| He checks his oxygen and puts on his G suit. It will keep the blood in his brain as his jet fighter travels at two and a half times the speed of sound. | 00:20 |
| Sho on to airfield | Music | 00:30 |
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| SHO YOSHIDA: "I can't make a mistake. It's a very responsible job". | 00:33 |
| Sho checks plane | Music | 00:42 |
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| CARNEY: His nickname is Kickass and like the Japanese fighters of old, he's prepared to sacrifice his life for his country. | 00:49 |
| Sho in to cockpit | SHO YOSHIDA: "My job is very important to protect the peace and safety of our country". | 00:56 |
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| Plane takes off | CARNEY: The horrors of war have shaped and defined Japan, but almost 70 years since the end of World War 2 Japan has changed its pacifist constitution and unleashed its defence force. Regional tensions are cranking up. These pilots have seen more close calls and scrambles in the last year than in the previous decade.
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| The new foe is an old one - China. In his F15, Yoshida can reach the Senkaku Islands in 20 minutes. It's the region's biggest flashpoint. | 01:36 |
| Aerials, Senkaku islands | China lays historical claim to the rocky islets it calls Diaoyu | 01:55 |
| Super: Courtesy Japan Air Self-Defense Forces | but Japan administers them and it's not about to let go without a fight. | 02:00 |
| Sho flying | SHO YOSHIDA: "As I don't know the purpose and intention of unidentified aircraft approaching our air space, I always become tense". | 02:07 |
| Military parade. Super: Courtesy Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces | [Military band plays] | 02:26 |
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| CARNEY: Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has harnessed concern about China and moved to transform Japan's self-defence force into an offensive one. He's empowered his army, navy and air force to act first. SHO YOSHIDA: "In order to protect the safety of our country it's necessary | 02:29 |
| Sho Yoshida | to show our existence as a deterrent power". | 02:50 |
| Naval ships | Music | 02:55 |
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| CARNEY: Foreign Correspondent has been granted unprecedented access to key elements of Japan's increasingly battle-ready military. Japan is at an historic point. Militarism and nationalism are on the rise and many fear the country is heading down the war path once again. | 02:59 |
| Carney boards destroyer and greets captain | This is the destroyer Myoko and the Captain is Toshinori Matsumi. He has extraordinary firepower at his disposal. CAPTAIN TOSHINORI MATSUMI: [Myoko Destroyer] "It's improved to load SM-3 missiles | 03:37 |
| Captain. Super: | to enhance our Ballistic Missile Defence System so it can respond to all threats". | 03:45 |
| Carney walks with Sato | CARNEY: But it's not what's on the outside that's impressive. | 03:50 |
| Into CIC | We've been given special clearance to enter the Combat Information Centre or CIC. Only a select few officers are allowed to work here - and this is the very heart of the Japan's defence system. | 03:59 |
| Carney to camera in CIC | [in CIC] "This is their eyes and ears on the world. They can track and destroy anything in North Asia. So if China or North Korea despatch a missile or a jet fighter, they'll see it here first on these screens and the order to strike back will come from here". | 04:15 |
| Carney with Sato | Executive Officer Tsuyoshi Sato will show us how it all works during a regulation drill. Information about any potential attack is relayed from radar systems across the country. It shows up on these screens. | 04:32 |
| Inside CIC | EXECUTIVE OFFICER TSUYOSHI SATO: [during drill] "SPY radars detect targets at 120 degrees. Targets come towards us. Targets are missiles, we respond to them. Ready for firing".
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| CARNEY: From this war room, Executive Officer Sato can direct and co-ordinate combat. Super computers help him analyse the incoming threat and recommend the best response. | 05:05 |
| Sato orders missile fire | EXECUTIVE OFFICER TSUYOSHI SATO: "Fire!" | 05:18 |
| Inside CIC | [after drill on Myoko Destroyer] "When our country is attacked, the Prime Minister will order a defence operation. | 05:26 |
| Sato. Super: | We follow the order to attack once we've identified the target". | 05:33 |
| Destroyer | CARNEY: The capabilities are immense. The CIC can handle a hundred threats at the same time within 500 kilometres | 05:41 |
| Destroyer on exercise. Super: Courtesy Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces | and the missiles will be fired from here. A special vertical launching system has been developed to maximize impact. Ninety can be delivered within minutes. | 05:52 |
| Captain | CAPTAIN TOSHINORI MATSUMI: "SM-2 missiles can be launched to attack aircraft and submarines, and SM-3 missiles can intercept ballistic missiles. | 06:05 |
| Tadamasa with students | CARNEY: For those with long memories, Japan's military moves are deeply worrying. TADAMASA IWAI: "The moment you criticised the war you were thrown into jail". | 06:19 |
| Tadamasa and Carney look at photos |
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| CARNEY: 94 year old Tadamasa Iwai has seen it all before. He was around when | 06:36 |
| Archival. WWII. Kamikaze planes | imperial Japan beat the nationalist drum last century. He enlisted in the dying stages of World War II. He became a Kamikaze. | 06:42 |
| Tadamasa and Carney look at diagrams | Iwai was a special kind of Kamikaze, a human torpedo. His mission was to strap himself into a mini submarine and slam it and 500 kilograms of explosives on board into enemy ships. | 06:54 |
| Photo. Tadamasa in uniform | TADAMASA IWAI: "They said it's a metal coffin. That's how they explained it. | 07:14 |
| Tadamasa. Super: | I thought Japan would be defeated - there was no way we could win - but we will die anyway, | 07:19 |
| Tadamasa in museum | so better to do it with a single shot". CARNEY: It was of course a suicide mission but in the end he became too sick to carry out his assignment. He eventually resolved Japan's war was foolish and now he's worried Prime Minister Abe is leading the nation down the same path. TADAMASA IWAI: "The pre-war system is simply a system that dragged people into war. | 07:30 |
| Tadamasa | People couldn't criticise or oppose. Prime Minister Abe is trying to revive this".
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| Protest | CARNEY: There are many young people fighting against their country's new, muscular posture. These protesters have rejected their government's manipulation of constitutional constraints, to build up the military into an attack force. They claim Abe has subverted the democratic process. | 08:17 |
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| YOSHIMASA USHIDA: [university student] "Shinzo Abe's completely ignoring the foundation of which modern Japan's been built. Nazis carried out party politics against the Constitution. | 08:51 |
| Yoshimasa Ushida | Now the ruling party, the LDP, is carrying out party politics and acting above the law". | 09:00 |
| Protest | CARNEY: The way Ushida and his friends see it, they might be the ones fighting Japan's next war and they don't want any part of it. | 09:08 |
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| YOSHIMASA USHIDA: "I think there's a possibility of war and if so, I won't go. | 09:25 |
| Yoshimasa Ushida | What would I do with a war? I might run away". | 09:32 |
| Protest | CARNEY: But while the protesters rage, the military might grows fuelled by a military budget that's now the 7th largest in the world. | 09:36 |
| Recruitment drive video |
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| JAPANESE RECRUITMENT DRIVE VIDEO | 09:58 |
| Military academy. Exterior and interior. Recruits wake | Music | 10:25 |
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| CARNEY: And here's where they aspire to be - Japan's equivalent of West Point or Duntroon. It's a tough place to crack - only one in ten top applicants get in. Staying the course is even harder. | 10:44 |
| Recruits clean floor | Unsurprisingly, it's produced some of the nation's best and brightest commanders. The daily schedule can be punishing. Cleaning the floor is an exercise in obedience and unquestioning respect. Here second year students break in the newcomers. | 11:05 |
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| SECOND YEAR STUDENT: [to newcomer] "I don't sense your motivation. You're always making mistakes. Are you really cleaning? NEW RECRUIT: "I am!" SECOND YEAR STUDENT: "If so, you should do it from the start". NEW RECRUIT: "Yes!".
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| Recruits running | CARNEY: And if the recruits don't measure up, punishment is immediate. | 11:40 |
| Officer addresses recruits/ Recruits run | OFFICER: "Before we go to the dining room we need to look at your behaviour. We will run further than usual. Follow me". CARNEY: This year the academy is crowded, 2000 are now training to be leaders. Enrolments are at an unprecedented level and record numbers are turning up to entrance exams. | 11:50 |
| Michio Onji in front of mirror | 21 year old Michio Onji has made it to fourth year. He's been tagged as a future leader. MICHIO ONJI: "I want to live up to my superiors' intentions. | 12:17 |
| Michio Onji | I want to become a great officer. That's my motivation". | 12:27 |
| Onji on parade | Music | 12:30 |
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| CARNEY: A couple of decades ago, the military was seen as a last resort for failed police recruits or the unemployed. Now it's a prestigious career choice. | 12:45 |
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| MICHIO ONJI: "The SDF are the last stronghold for Japan. | 12:59 |
| Michio Onji | It's an organisation for 100 million Japanese. I'm interested in protecting them and it's a job I'm proud of". | 13:05 |
| Cadets march | CARNEY: High visibility in national relief efforts like that following the 2011 tsunami, has bolstered the military's image as well. | 13:14 |
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| MICHIO ONJI: "In the past, the SDF were regarded as tax thieves who did nothing. But through disaster relief and international contributions | 13:30 |
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| their role has been recognised and their prestige has grown". | 13:45 |
| Onji in master class | CARNEY: Onji is doing his master's thesis on Australian defence policy. Japan is building its new strategy of collective self-defence and it starts here. It's strengthening a series of alliances in Asia to act as a counterweight to China. | 13:52 |
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| MICHIO ONJI: "China's on the rise. There's an idea that dependence on the US is over. My conclusion is that Australia is shifting emphasis to its neighbouring Asian countries, South East Asia and Japan". | 14:12 |
| Cadets in mess | CARNEY: The aim is give the cadets a worldview so they can negotiate Japan's complex future security needs. | 14:37 |
| Cadets in gym. Onji lifting weights | But the Self Defense Forces have never fired a shot in battle and with that reality a little bit closer, Onji and fellow cadets are thinking more deeply about that possibility. MICHIO ONJI: "I'm anxious about whether I can really play an active role or not, if I go to war. | 14:51 |
| Onji | It's not easy to be prepared. But when I entered the Academy, I was determined to get this job. I'm prepared to give my life". | 15:18 |
| Tokyo Harbour GVs | Music
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| CARNEY: To outside eyes, Japan's efforts to redefine its military and rebrand its image can look quite bizarre. | 15:42 |
| Matchmaking cruise | On this warm summer's night in Tokyo, we're heading to see one such charm offensive. A match-making cruise where women and military personnel speed date in the hope of a relationship. | 15:51 |
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| These nights - staged by the SDF - are proving very popular. Women had to win a lottery to secure their place on the cruise. 28 year old Shiho Yano is seeking an SDF man who's reliable and serious. | 16:04 |
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| SHIHO YANO: "The moment I came here | 16:22 |
| Shiho | I had an impression that there were many attractive people so I'm excited about it". | 16:23 |
| Shiho speed dating | CARNEY: Armed with a list of names and numbers the girls can expect to meet as many as seventy men in an hour. WOMAN: [to young male Japanese man] "It's bewildering isn't it? Doesn't it make you drunk when you keep standing up and down?" | 16:34 |
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| CARNEY: Shiho gets a few offers, but eventually she finds a man she's interested in. YOUNG MALE: "Do you want to have a drink with me?" SHIHO YANO: "Sure!"
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| Shiho and young man on deck | CARNEY: They move upstairs to the deck to get to know each other a little better. Shiho seems more than impressed. | 17:11 |
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| SHIHO YANO: "I came here to meet someone with marriage in mind so if it goes well I'd like to get married - and it depends on his feelings too". | 17:18 |
| Dancers on cruise | CARNEY: And that's not beyond the realm of possibility. The last cruise has so far brought two marriages. | 17:34 |
| Protest | But beyond the matchmaking services and marketing ploys, some ultra-nationalist elements are attaching themselves to the military's ascendency. | 17:52 |
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| TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: "I think we have to restore the very safe society we had before World War II. | 18:04 |
| Tamogami | I want them to work under the same rules as for all armed forces in the world". | 18:08 |
| New Social Order rally | CARNEY: This group - one of fifty from the extreme right - call themselves The New Social Order and normally inhabit the internet. Now they're showing their faces on the street, all but daring the police to shut them down. | 18:13 |
| Speaker at rally | SPEAKER AT RALLY: "We Japanese should defend Japan. CROWD: "Yes!" SPEAKER AT RALLY: "In order to do so, we have to have our own military. Re-armament and nuclear armament is the only way". | 18:34 |
| New Social Order rally | CARNEY: They claim Japan is a US puppet state. | 18:48 |
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| SPEAKER AT RALLY: "Remember your proud and noble spirit. Japanese, stand up. Japanese, stand up. Japanese, go fight". | 18:56 |
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| CARNEY: They want to bring back the glory days of imperial Japan when the country ruled much of Asia. They also want all Koreans and Chinese living in Japan expelled. | 19:13 |
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| SPEAKER AT RALLY: We are serious. Chinese and Koreans are the invaders and criminals. We fight against these Chinese and Koreans. | 19:24 |
| Toshio Tamogami making posters | CARNEY: These groups are fringe-dwellers but Toshio Tamogami is helping to usher them into the mainstream. TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: [retired general] "The SDF don't have the status | 19:41 |
| Toshio. Super: | of a fully-fledged military". | 19:53 |
| Toshio Tamogami making posters | CARNEY: He's an ex-general who shares many of the ultra-right's views and in Tokyo's governor elections earlier this year, Tamogami captured a quarter of the youth vote - the second highest. TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: "The SDF lack the capability to attack enemy countries.
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| Toshio | Unless they have the power to strike, they can't become a so-called deterrent power". | 20:16 |
| Toshio walks in gardens | CARNEY: Tamogami was sacked as head of the SDF Air Force for asserting Japan did not fight a war of aggression in World War II. | 20:22 |
| Archival. WWII footage. Nanjing massacre and comfort women | Tamogami says the Nanjing massacre of 1937 in China is a myth. Historians say up to 300,000 Chinese were raped and murdered by the Japanese imperial army. He also believes Japan shouldn't have apologized to South Korea for its use of comfort women, or sex slaves, during its brutal occupation of Asia. | 20:36 |
| Toshio | TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: "Comfort women are known as sex slaves but that's a lie - they're prostitutes. Comfort women were prostitutes during war time. Comfort women received a similar salary to generals and admirals. "Sex slaves" are the wrong words to describe them". | 21:05 |
| Toshio at Yasukuni Shrine | CARNEY: Coming here to the Yasukuni Shrine is another provocation. To critics, a visit here by a politician like Tamogami is seen as an endorsement of Japanese atrocities committed before and during World War II. But he says he wants the nation to honour its war dead as martyrs - including the 13 Class A war criminals that are enshrined at Yasukuni. | 21:27 |
| Toshio | TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: "It's necessary for Japan to restore its history. By defeat in World War II we have accepted the view of the Tokyo Tribunal that Japan is a bad country. We have to get out of this and restore our confidence". | 21:53 |
| Tadamasa | TADAMASA IWAI: "When push comes to shove, it will sacrifice the people. This is the real nature of the military". | 22:09 |
| Tadamasa with students | CARNEY: Tadamasa Iwai - the Kamikaze who became a pacifist - believes a nation that hasn't dealt with its past is destined to repeat history. | 22:1: |
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| TADAMASA IWAI: "Japan has not really reflected on its past | 22:27 |
| Tadamasa | nor apologised for the invasion and colonisation of China and Korea. It hurts my conscience". | 22:37 |
| Tadamasa with students | CARNEY: He's made it his mission to educate new generations about Japan's warrior past. He says Japan's younger generations aren't taught the realities of imperial Japan pre-World War II, and are largely unaware of the atrocities it committed. He wants them to understand so they don't make the same mistakes he believes, he and the nation did. TADAMASA IWAI: "I'm 94 years old so I don't have much time. | 22:53 |
| Tadamasa | Please be aware and spread it around. It's a bit premature, but this is what I hope for". | 23:26 |
| Navy destroyers/Air force pilots | Music | 23:43 |
| Recruitment drive video |
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| JAPANESE RECRUITMENT DRIVE VIDEO | 09:58 |
| Military academy. Exterior and interior. Recruits wake | Music | 10:25 |
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| CARNEY: And here's where they aspire to be - Japan's equivalent of West Point or Duntroon. It's a tough place to crack - only one in ten top applicants get in. Staying the course is even harder. | 10:44 |
| Recruits clean floor | Unsurprisingly, it's produced some of the nation's best and brightest commanders. The daily schedule can be punishing. Cleaning the floor is an exercise in obedience and unquestioning respect. Here second year students break in the newcomers. | 11:05 |
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| SECOND YEAR STUDENT: [to newcomer] "I don't sense your motivation. You're always making mistakes. Are you really cleaning? NEW RECRUIT: "I am!" SECOND YEAR STUDENT: "If so, you should do it from the start". NEW RECRUIT: "Yes!".
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| Recruits running | CARNEY: And if the recruits don't measure up, punishment is immediate. | 11:40 |
| Officer addresses recruits/ Recruits run | OFFICER: "Before we go to the dining room we need to look at your behaviour. We will run further than usual. Follow me". CARNEY: This year the academy is crowded, 2000 are now training to be leaders. Enrolments are at an unprecedented level and record numbers are turning up to entrance exams. | 11:50 |
| Michio Onji in front of mirror | 21 year old Michio Onji has made it to fourth year. He's been tagged as a future leader. MICHIO ONJI: "I want to live up to my superiors' intentions. | 12:17 |
| Michio Onji | I want to become a great officer. That's my motivation". | 12:27 |
| Onji on parade | Music | 12:30 |
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| CARNEY: A couple of decades ago, the military was seen as a last resort for failed police recruits or the unemployed. Now it's a prestigious career choice. | 12:45 |
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| MICHIO ONJI: "The SDF are the last stronghold for Japan. | 12:59 |
| Michio Onji | It's an organisation for 100 million Japanese. I'm interested in protecting them and it's a job I'm proud of". | 13:05 |
| Cadets march | CARNEY: High visibility in national relief efforts like that following the 2011 tsunami, has bolstered the military's image as well. | 13:14 |
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| MICHIO ONJI: "In the past, the SDF were regarded as tax thieves who did nothing. But through disaster relief and international contributions | 13:30 |
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| their role has been recognised and their prestige has grown". | 13:45 |
| Onji in master class | CARNEY: Onji is doing his master's thesis on Australian defence policy. Japan is building its new strategy of collective self-defence and it starts here. It's strengthening a series of alliances in Asia to act as a counterweight to China. | 13:52 |
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| MICHIO ONJI: "China's on the rise. There's an idea that dependence on the US is over. My conclusion is that Australia is shifting emphasis to its neighbouring Asian countries, South East Asia and Japan". | 14:12 |
| Cadets in mess | CARNEY: The aim is give the cadets a worldview so they can negotiate Japan's complex future security needs. | 14:37 |
| Cadets in gym. Onji lifting weights | But the Self Defense Forces have never fired a shot in battle and with that reality a little bit closer, Onji and fellow cadets are thinking more deeply about that possibility. MICHIO ONJI: "I'm anxious about whether I can really play an active role or not, if I go to war. | 14:51 |
| Onji | It's not easy to be prepared. But when I entered the Academy, I was determined to get this job. I'm prepared to give my life". | 15:18 |
| Tokyo Harbour GVs | Music
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| CARNEY: To outside eyes, Japan's efforts to redefine its military and rebrand its image can look quite bizarre. | 15:42 |
| Matchmaking cruise | On this warm summer's night in Tokyo, we're heading to see one such charm offensive. A match-making cruise where women and military personnel speed date in the hope of a relationship. | 15:51 |
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| These nights - staged by the SDF - are proving very popular. Women had to win a lottery to secure their place on the cruise. 28 year old Shiho Yano is seeking an SDF man who's reliable and serious. | 16:04 |
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| SHIHO YANO: "The moment I came here | 16:22 |
| Shiho | I had an impression that there were many attractive people so I'm excited about it". | 16:23 |
| Shiho speed dating | CARNEY: Armed with a list of names and numbers the girls can expect to meet as many as seventy men in an hour. WOMAN: [to young male Japanese man] "It's bewildering isn't it? Doesn't it make you drunk when you keep standing up and down?" | 16:34 |
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| CARNEY: Shiho gets a few offers, but eventually she finds a man she's interested in. YOUNG MALE: "Do you want to have a drink with me?" SHIHO YANO: "Sure!"
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| Shiho and young man on deck | CARNEY: They move upstairs to the deck to get to know each other a little better. Shiho seems more than impressed. | 17:11 |
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| SHIHO YANO: "I came here to meet someone with marriage in mind so if it goes well I'd like to get married - and it depends on his feelings too". | 17:18 |
| Dancers on cruise | CARNEY: And that's not beyond the realm of possibility. The last cruise has so far brought two marriages. | 17:34 |
| Protest | But beyond the matchmaking services and marketing ploys, some ultra-nationalist elements are attaching themselves to the military's ascendency. | 17:52 |
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| TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: "I think we have to restore the very safe society we had before World War II. | 18:04 |
| Tamogami | I want them to work under the same rules as for all armed forces in the world". | 18:08 |
| New Social Order rally | CARNEY: This group - one of fifty from the extreme right - call themselves The New Social Order and normally inhabit the internet. Now they're showing their faces on the street, all but daring the police to shut them down. | 18:13 |
| Speaker at rally | SPEAKER AT RALLY: "We Japanese should defend Japan. CROWD: "Yes!" SPEAKER AT RALLY: "In order to do so, we have to have our own military. Re-armament and nuclear armament is the only way". | 18:34 |
| New Social Order rally | CARNEY: They claim Japan is a US puppet state. | 18:48 |
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| SPEAKER AT RALLY: "Remember your proud and noble spirit. Japanese, stand up. Japanese, stand up. Japanese, go fight". | 18:56 |
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| CARNEY: They want to bring back the glory days of imperial Japan when the country ruled much of Asia. They also want all Koreans and Chinese living in Japan expelled. | 19:13 |
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| SPEAKER AT RALLY: We are serious. Chinese and Koreans are the invaders and criminals. We fight against these Chinese and Koreans. | 19:24 |
| Toshio Tamogami making posters | CARNEY: These groups are fringe-dwellers but Toshio Tamogami is helping to usher them into the mainstream. TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: [retired general] "The SDF don't have the status | 19:41 |
| Toshio. Super: | of a fully-fledged military". | 19:53 |
| Toshio Tamogami making posters | CARNEY: He's an ex-general who shares many of the ultra-right's views and in Tokyo's governor elections earlier this year, Tamogami captured a quarter of the youth vote - the second highest. TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: "The SDF lack the capability to attack enemy countries.
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| Toshio | Unless they have the power to strike, they can't become a so-called deterrent power". | 20:16 |
| Toshio walks in gardens | CARNEY: Tamogami was sacked as head of the SDF Air Force for asserting Japan did not fight a war of aggression in World War II. | 20:22 |
| Archival. WWII footage. Nanjing massacre and comfort women | Tamogami says the Nanjing massacre of 1937 in China is a myth. Historians say up to 300,000 Chinese were raped and murdered by the Japanese imperial army. He also believes Japan shouldn't have apologized to South Korea for its use of comfort women, or sex slaves, during its brutal occupation of Asia. | 20:36 |
| Toshio | TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: "Comfort women are known as sex slaves but that's a lie - they're prostitutes. Comfort women were prostitutes during war time. Comfort women received a similar salary to generals and admirals. "Sex slaves" are the wrong words to describe them". | 21:05 |
| Toshio at Yasukuni Shrine | CARNEY: Coming here to the Yasukuni Shrine is another provocation. To critics, a visit here by a politician like Tamogami is seen as an endorsement of Japanese atrocities committed before and during World War II. But he says he wants the nation to honour its war dead as martyrs - including the 13 Class A war criminals that are enshrined at Yasukuni. | 21:27 |
| Toshio | TOSHIO TAMOGAMI: "It's necessary for Japan to restore its history. By defeat in World War II we have accepted the view of the Tokyo Tribunal that Japan is a bad country. We have to get out of this and restore our confidence". | 21:53 |
| Tadamasa | TADAMASA IWAI: "When push comes to shove, it will sacrifice the people. This is the real nature of the military". | 22:09 |
| Tadamasa with students | CARNEY: Tadamasa Iwai - the Kamikaze who became a pacifist - believes a nation that hasn't dealt with its past is destined to repeat history. | 22:1: |
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| TADAMASA IWAI: "Japan has not really reflected on its past | 22:27 |
| Tadamasa | nor apologised for the invasion and colonisation of China and Korea. It hurts my conscience". | 22:37 |
| Tadamasa with students | CARNEY: He's made it his mission to educate new generations about Japan's warrior past. He says Japan's younger generations aren't taught the realities of imperial Japan pre-World War II, and are largely unaware of the atrocities it committed. He wants them to understand so they don't make the same mistakes he believes, he and the nation did. TADAMASA IWAI: "I'm 94 years old so I don't have much time. | 22:53 |
| Tadamasa | Please be aware and spread it around. It's a bit premature, but this is what I hope for". | 23:26 |
| Navy destroyers/Air force pilots | Music | 23:43 |