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Japan, obsessed with a militaristic fever, is more frantically resorting to the moves to sharpen the sword of reinvasion in collusion with outside forces.

The Japanese minister of Defense recently held a confab with the defence ministers of Britain and Italy and agreed to accelerate the joint development of a next-generation fighter.

Japan, which had already embarked on its own fighter development with Mitsubishi heavy industry and other evil war criminal enterprises as the main axis, allured Britain and Italy into the "joint development" from December 2022, and shamelessly dubbed it an "international combat aviation plan".

Japan established an "international organization" that plays the role of control tower for the "joint development" at the end of last year and appointed a former official of the Ministry of Defense as its first chief. It formally set up a joint venture company in charge of designing of the fighter and the like in June this year and is running amuck to hasten its deployment.

The next-generation fighter Japan is going to develop and deploy is known to be superior to the US F-35 Stealth fighter and is a multi-mission fighter capable of attacking ground, marine and air targets.

It is clear to everyone that possession of such an attack fighter is not for "defence" as it goes far beyond the scope of defence.

The war criminal state, which was compelled to make deep bows to the international community, talking about the abandonment of the right to belligerency and the non-possession of combat capability, while shedding crocodile tears, for imposing great misfortune and pains on mankind in the last century, is now hell-bent on possessing ultra-modern military hardware for preemptive attack. This is a violation of not only its constitution but also international law and a direct challenge to mankind.

What is worse is that Japan's moves for modernizing its armed forces under the signboard of international "research and development" are aimed at reviving the old imperial era by restoring the past "war alliance".

Frequently witnessed are Japan's moves to strengthen military nexus with members of NATO, which has turned into the world's biggest war alliance and the worst confrontation group in history, and also the old "sworn friends" which were involved in the "world division" after establishing the "blood alliance" in the last century.

Japan practically concluded respectively with Britain and Italy an "agreement on mutual supply of goods and manpower" which stipulates that necessary food, fuel, ammunition and other goods and manpower for their transport shall be supplied to the relevant countries in case of joint military drills or contingency.

And it concluded with Britain the "reciprocal access agreement" which makes it easy to mutually dispatch armed forces and conduct joint drills, defined the relations between the two countries as the "semi-alliance" in defence cooperation ranking next to the one with the US and is staging joint drills under various names.

In this regard, Abe said that at the time when he was in office as prime minister he and the then British Prime Minister Johnson shared recognition of the importance of expanding the allies and that they reached a consensus of views on bringing Japan and the UK into closer relationship as the "Japan-UK alliance" in the period of World War I. This fully reveals the sinister purpose of the descendants of the samurai.

It is a cunning trick of Japan to rally its allies with the "reciprocal access agreement" and the "agreement on mutual supply of goods and manpower" and thus launch reinvasion at any cost and regain the position of the old colonial suzerain state.

After all, Japan's pursuit of fighter development is not merely aimed at modernizing its military hardware but at expanding the military bloc to create an environment favourable for carrying out the war of aggression in the future.

It is foolish to think that the wicked militaristic nature of aggression and war can be covered up by the mask of "defence" or "joint research".

If Japan persists in military cooperation with the "groups" of the old era, obsessed with the ambition to become the "leader of the East" and without proper recognition of the trend of the times, it will face only self-destruction.