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Flag of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force featuring a red sun with eight red and white rays on a square field bordered in gold. Flag of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force featuring a red sun with sixteen red rays extending outward on a white background. JSDF briefing in Kyushu, 1956 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Izumo sails away from its Yokosuka Base in Kanagawa Prefecture. Japanese and Philippine troops, displaying the Japanese flag and holding with their firearms, pose for photographs during a counter-landing live-fire exercise as part of the annual Balikatan joint military drills in Philippines.
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Standing entry replaced with new article. Aug 24, 2026
Modified link of Web site: BBC News - Japan Self-Defence Forces. Jul 30, 2026
Add new Web site: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses - Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (PDF). May 16, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Japan Self-Defence Forces - Origin and Development of the Institution (PDF). Mar 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Carolina Law Scholarship Repository - Exercise of Force by the Japenese Self-Defence Force (PDF). Dec 10, 2024
Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - Japan's Self-Defense Forces. Jul 26, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC News - Japan Self-Defence Forces. May 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Official Site of Japan Ground Self Defense Force. Aug 11, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Japan Ground Self Defence Force. Jan 25, 2011
Add new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Air Self Defense Force, Japan. Jan 25, 2011
New article added. Apr 01, 2009
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