Japan’s military moves for a thorough transformation into a war-capable state are reaching a dangerous phase day by day.

It was made public by media recently that Aegis destroyer Chokai of the Japanese Maritime “Self-Defense Force” left for the US to arm itself with the US-made long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Japan has already finalized preliminary preparations for the use of long-range attack weapons aboard including purchasing contracts and operational training. And it has entered into the final stage to equip its Aegis destroyer with the Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Eight Aegis destroyers possessed by the Maritime “Self-Defense Force” will reportedly carry such long-range missiles in the future.

As is well known, Tomahawk missiles with a 1 250-2 500km range have been used by the US as a means of preemptive strike in various wars.

All facts suggest that Japan has launched into the deployment of means of long-range strike for preemptive strike in earnest.

The situation can never be ignored.

International law and the present constitution of Japan strictly prohibit the war criminal state and vanquished nation from possessing any means of long-range attack.

However, Japan has doggedly resorted to the revenge-seeking moves for reinvasion.

It has long worked hard to possess long-range weapons at any cost, regarding it as its main strategic goal for realizing the wild ambition.

In particular, Japan revised three security-related documents including the “national security strategy” despite strong concern at home and abroad in December 2022, casting off the deceptive cloak of “exclusive defence,” and thus paved the road for openly securing long-range weapons.

After including the possession of the “capability of attacking enemy base” (counterstrike capability) in a revised document, Japan set it as a de facto state policy and has worked hard to secure all kinds of long-range means of attack.

As a recent example, Japan has already started mass-producing homemade long-range missiles that can be launched from different positions—land, submarine and warship.

Along with this, Japan is scheming to deploy long-range missiles in various military bases in Kyushu and accelerating their deployment in other parts of the archipelago.

Finally, Japan dispatched its Aegis destroyer to the US to purchase the cruise missiles it had planned to do next year. This shows that Japan impatiently tries to complete the deployment of long-range weapons as soon as possible.

In a word, the military moves of Japan in recent years have been directed to perfecting its capability for preemptive attack.

It is self-evident that in case Japan, which has already made the political, military and legal preparations for overseas aggression, finally perfects the capability to fight a war through the massive acquisition of long-range strike means and their subsequent forward deployment, it will soon embark on the road to overseas aggression.

What is more serious is that the long-range weapons possessed by Japan have the DPRK and other regional states within their striking range.

Given that Japan which inflicted indelible pains to Asian countries in the last century is still making desperate efforts to realize the old dream about the “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere,” it is as clear as noonday where the arrow of reinvasion will fly first.

Herein lies the reason why the reckless moves of the descendants of militarism who are bringing earlier the moment of reinvasion by rounding off the capability for preemptive attack should never be overlooked.