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| The Police Reserve is established (1950) | |
Copyright Masaru HASHIMOTO
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| REARMAMENT Postwar Japan, according to Article Nine of its Constitution, should have renounced military force. In reality, however, it gradually built up forces, from the Police Reserve to the National Security Force to the Self-Defense Forces, and then one day it suddenly had a huge modern army. | |