Japan is making more desperate efforts than ever before to bring disaster to the Asia-Pacific region again in collusion with outside forces.

It was vividly expressed in the fact that shortly ago, Japan staged a joint military drill with foreign strategic forces, including aircraft carriers of the US Navy and the French Navy, in the Asia-Pacific region for nearly 10 days for the first time by mobilizing the large escort warship Kaga and other war equipment of its Maritime “Self-Defence Force”.

It is no exaggeration to say that one of the main factors causing the danger of destroying the balance of strength and creating a new conflicting structure in the region is Japan’s action of frequently inviting war maniacs from across the ocean under the pretext of “security.”

Last year alone, Japan ran amuck to further aggravate the regional situation in collusion with outside forces, talking about “growing threat” from neighbouring countries.

Not content with joining various confrontational groups such as QUAD and SQUAD to play an active role as a core member, it made desperate efforts to win recognition as a full-fledged member of AUKUS, an exclusive group of the Anglo-Saxons.

Japan, which stretched out its tentacles to most of the military blocs in the region, made more frantic efforts than others to join the US in the attempt to establish military cooperative relations between the Asian version of NATO with the US-Japan-ROK tripartite military alliance system as its axis and NATO member states.

It is part of such schemes that Japan set up even its independent full-time mission at NATO at the outset of the new year.

It is hard to count the number of various joint military drills it staged under such situation.

This year alone, Japan has staged the largest-ever parachute drill aimed at a sudden invasion of neighbouring countries by introducing overseas aggressor forces from more than 10 countries including the US and UK into its islands.

Japan is busy with the preparations for a war of aggression, illustrated by the full-scale development and purchase of long-range strike means and the active movement to transfer the SDF headquarters into underground tunnels. Meanwhile, it has joined the outside aggressor forces, dispatching even a technically virtual carrier to an area far away from its “exclusive defence” boundary. The reality shows that the militarists’ ambition for overseas aggression has entered the stage of full-scale action.

It is by no means unreasonable for the world public to brand Japan as the most zealous element harassing regional peace and stability and as the “guide of NATO.”

Though Japan is letting loose a spate of rhetoric about the “security environment around it which is getting severe,” pretending not to know its cause, the record of militarist acts performed by it which does not abandon its ambition for reinvasion even a moment will never get vague.

Gone are the days when the “Imperial Army” could ignite wars at its will to realize the “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.”

Those countries in the region which suffered huge damage by Japan in the last century will never allow the descendants of the “Imperial Army” to ignite another war for realizing its old dream of “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.”

KCNA