(1st Update)

Mario did not live up to Yanayev's expectations, and shortly after he took office, he announced a state visit to Japan. As a result, Japan became the first country to be interviewed by the new U.S. President Mario. Of course, he did not come with any peace and hope, and this visit to Japan was intended to expand military trade between the United States and Japan, and to achieve the goal of containing the Soviet Union.

What makes Japan even more humiliating is that the Soviet Union clamored to return to the four northern islands unless you come to fight a war with us, otherwise you should not try to take the South Kuril Islands out of our hands through diplomatic means.

In this regard, Prime Minister Toshiki Umibe directly submitted his resignation, but the director of the Defense Agency, Gen Nakatani, was retained by Toshiki Umibe as the seed of the future Self-Defense Forces force, just as Nakatani Gen was preparing to reform Japan's defense self-defense forces, but he ushered in a major blow to his political career, and the Japanese dove Kiichi Miyazawa came to power, no longer supporting the Self-Defense Forces to continue to purchase equipment to stimulate neighboring countries, but actively seeking and improving relations between Japan and China and the Soviet Union. It is hoped that a situation of peaceful coexistence will be achieved through the mode of dialogue.

In this regard, Nakatani Gen almost angrily wanted to submit his resignation and resign from the post of Minister of Defense Agency, if it was still the system of the supremacy of the emperor, it would be difficult for Nakatani Gen to make a mistake. However, Mario's visit gave Nakatani a glimmer of hope, and the fact that the president of a country came to Japan in a hurry to trade can only show that he is definitely not here to care about the Japanese economy, and the biggest possibility is to make another arms sale.

So when Mario came to Tokyo to visit Kiichi Miyazawa, Gen Nakatani tried his best to get in touch with President Mario. He made it clear to the other side that the SDF wanted to update the air force. in order to deal with the threat from the red polar bear.

"But don't you already have a tender proposal? The details of your FS-X project were completed last year. It passed the review in April this year, and the test model was completed in May, and then it was officially released to the public. ”

In February 1994, the companies that designed the components for the Japanese F2 fighter completed their engineering and began building the first prototype. The first prototype of the FS-X began assembly in early 1994, left the factory at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Komaki Minami Plant on January 12, 1995, and conducted its first 38-minute test flight in October of the same year.

"But we can't wait, Your Excellency." Nakatani said anxiously. "We also need more fighters, and before the F2 is officially produced, we also need F15 and F16 fighters to respond to Soviet provocations. And with regard to the Diet and the Prime Minister, I also hope that the President of the United States will be able to exert diplomatic pressure on Kiichi Miyazawa. ”

Of course, President Mario does not mind helping the director of the Defense Agency, and in fact he also hopes that someone in Japan will actively negotiate this arms sale, "Of course, I will speak for the Defense Agency for you more during my next visit to the Prime Minister, and in fact I also hope to help the allies strengthen their military forces to deal with the threat from the north." ”

Gen Nakatani suddenly stood up, bowed slightly to President Mario, and said gratefully in his never very standard English. "Thank you President for your support, and we will not forget your contribution to Japan."

In this way, a deal of love and I first reached a unified voice in private. Mario then spent a state visit to the Prime Minister of Japan. Naturally, he will also reveal the news that the United States intends to sell arms to Japan. And said that the United States was willing to sell F16 fighter jets to Japan to counter the Soviet threat.

Of course, Kikazu Miyazawa politely rejected President Mario's proposal, saying that Japan is now actively seeking to improve relations with its neighbors, and that the agreements that can be reached at the negotiating table can be resolved as much as possible at the negotiating table, and that it does not intend to use force and intimidation to resolve territorial issues with neighboring countries.

President Mario expressed his displeasure with this, and he asked Kiichi Miyazawa, "Are you doing this worthy of the people's expectations of the prime minister?" Former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaibe's defeat on the four northern islands led to his direct resignation, and now the Soviet Union is eyeing your four northern islands, and if you don't update your armaments, I'm afraid that even Soviet bomber provocations will not be able to intercept it. ”

After speaking, he finally added a sentence that was enough to stimulate Kiichi Miyazawa, "My friend, the bargaining chips at the negotiating table are decided based on your own military strength, not on your friendly attitude. When you don't have enough air force to protect the territorial security of your country, the so-called negotiations are a big joke. ”

Sure enough, Kiichi Miyazawa was a little displeased by Mario's words, "President Mario, is this a threat to Japan?" Although we are not a political power, we are by far the second largest economy in the world. ”

"The second economy in the world? Oh, so what? Looking at Kiichi Miyazawa's inexplicable sense of superiority, Mario couldn't help but smile and shook his head, "Then do you know that the Soviet Varyag is approaching the deadline for launching into service, and according to intelligence, the Soviet Union's fourth-generation aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk is also 70 percent, if you don't guess wrong, when these two aircraft carriers are completed, they will be in service with the Soviet Union's Pacific Fleet." When the time comes, in the face of ships and guns, will your economy be able to save the country? No, only the armed forces of the Naval Self-Defense Forces can cope with the threat from the north. ”

The information provided by Mario was like a slap in the face, and it hit Kiichi Miyazawa on the head, and at this time, the director of the Defense Agency on the side was also fanning the flames, "Yes, the purpose of equipping the Pacific Fleet with the Soviet Varyag is to target the four northern islands of Japan. I'm afraid this is a well-known secret, and there is nothing to hide. ”

"So, without updating the equipment of the Air Self-Defense Forces, it will be difficult for us to stop the advance of the Soviet Navy. When the time comes, not to mention the competition with the Soviet Union for the four northern islands, whether or not Japan can be kept will be a question. "Gen Nakatani deliberately exaggerated the threat of the Soviet Navy in order to coerce Kiichi Miyazawa into agreeing to the conditions.

"Japan's economic situation has not been good lately, and if some U.S.-Japan economic cooperation projects are transferred to South Korea, I am afraid that it will have a major impact on the Japanese economy." Mario asked with a smile, amiable on the surface, but threatening in his tone. I don't put Kiichi Miyazawa in the same position at all.

Sure enough, under the threat of the Soviet Union by Mario and Nakatani Gen, Kiichi Miyazawa was forced to agree to the purchase of Japanese armaments, just as Japan wanted to develop fighter jets on its own but was coerced by the American chaebol group to abandon the plan.

"Just like you coerced us into changing the Air Force's bidding plan, threatening us?" Kiichi Miyazawa asked back, but in the face of the strong comprehensive strength of the United States, Kiichi Miyazawa's counterattack seemed weak and ridiculous. Comprehensive strength determines its own diplomacy, and Japan, which is tied by the security agreement, has its own preconditions for facing the United States.

Mario directly ignored Kiichi Miyazawa's questioning, he didn't even care about the prime minister's opinion, and directly asked Nakatani's opinion, "If I can, I can have someone bring the contract over and sign it with the economic cooperation project together?" ”

"It's an honor." Nakatani nodded and said.

Kiichi Miyazawa twitched the corners of his mouth and did not speak.

The cooperation project included four F16 fighter jets, five Black Hawk fighter jets, and fifteen Sidewinder missiles, and everyone could see that Miyazawa Kiichi had almost coerced the deal under duress from the domestic right-wing forces and the US military-industrial chaebol clique, and that the newly appointed Japanese prime minister accepted a treaty that was humiliating for his peace-loving people without the slightest political assistance.

But the hawks in the SDF have been given a sufficient military force to deal with the threat from the Soviet Union. Akio Suzuki, chief of staff of the aviation staff, accepted this batch of air force assistance with a smile and arranged all of them on a military base in Hokkaido. Fools can see that the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force is planning to call out the Soviet Air Force and Navy on the issue of the four northern islands.

In this regard, Miyazawa Kiichi only sighed and blamed himself bitterly, "It was my incompetence that ruined the hard-won peace in Japan." ”

Gen Nakatani, however, has ambitious plans to further strengthen the SDF and develop it into a formidable force to be reckoned with in East Asia. (To be continued.) )