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Jagchosis posted:While Japanese courts have repeatedly held that the constitutional restriction on establishing a military places no meaningful formal constraints on the Japanese military, it seems to have had the political effect of Japan limiting its military spending to 1% of its GDP pretty consistently. Since Japan is rich this still means that it has a fairly powerful military of course. Well, that's just it. Whether Japan can legally build itself a military, there is the issue of cost. The price of an effective military deterrent sufficient to replace the American presence in Okinawa is, presumably, vastly greater than the price of keeping the Americans there. So long as the calculus works out that way, I expect the base will stay.
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