Nihonkoku Shoukan - Vol. 9 Ch. 43 - Air Raid on the Imperial Capital

[Amariithynar]

Trying to have Japan deplete their resources is surprisingly a sound strategy from them, not that it will work because they don’t have enough to stop them. Japan cannot replenish their weapon at the speed they’re being used. When it comes to advanced weapons they require imports which they do not have here.

I wonder if this foreshadowing, as logistics would absolutely become the bane of the JDF in this situation. They simply do not have the facilities to replace those missiles, and eventually even the spare parts for their jets are going to run out. Other countries (US, China... France to some extend, Russia because of old USSR stocks) would have fared better. Ironically this makes the JDF being a much more interesting protagonist in the story...

Not sure if you just forgot about the earlier parts of the series (it's been long enough I can understand it) or truly don't know Japan at all, but Japan has plenty of heavy industry capability even before they began sourcing raw materials from their allies. The problem was those raw resources, and they resolved those issues pretty quickly.

 

[sendai2cx]

<snip> It's just a matter of budget and raw resources, which by the way have been hand waved with their diplomatic relations with the countries Parpaldia have tried to invade or strong arm.

Thank you, I was eye rolling at so many of the posts you’re replying to but knew that I didn’t have the time to write a comprehensive reply.

Only thing I’d add is that while they were already mostly militarily self sufficient, they also have a massive industrial infrastructure that would have been geared for exports. The tools, factories, people that used to produce goods for export would have been regeared to increase their self sufficiency.

Japan and Taiwan are the two island nations most able to quickly pivot to self sufficiency in this scenario. I’d say they could be self sufficient to where the world was tech wise at the turn of the millennium in five years.

Had it happened to the New Zealand, the UK, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and most others, all have had the outlines of how to do so but would have had to spend at least two decades re-developing the techniques to get close to where the world was around the turn of the millennium.

 

[greatninja3]

I wonder if this foreshadowing, as logistics would absolutely become the bane of the JDF in this situation. They simply do not have the facilities to replace those missiles, and eventually even the spare parts for their jets are going to run out. Other countries (US, China... France to some extend, Russia because of old USSR stocks) would have fared better. Ironically this makes the JDF being a much more interesting protagonist in the story...

I believe it won't be a problem

Spoiler

They would disregard the treaty and start producing their own weapon I mean as someone mentioned they could produce their own but with limited capability cause they lost ww2 as for resource the dudes down south they had a trading thing going on has that covered i believe they found oil there if I remember correctly i think they would also reverse engineer some of the US equipment they have that was left behind cause the Japanese god hates foreigners and left them to die back on earth to drown or something.

Thats what I remember in the LN at least.

 

[1234muse]

They knew and they're trying to increase armed industrial output as fast as possible but there is one thing that they can't do about, Human resources.

it's not as simple as you might think. while I do belive japan has electronics production, a lot of things are built in very specialized ways with specialized machinery. everything else aside, you need to build up that ability to produce these things
of course that only goes for imported things that aren't produced locally.

 

[ALLxISxLOST]

sometimes you gotta tone down the arrogance to assess the situation you are in, rest in pieces morons.

I just want to say that from how this was described in the web translation of the novel this was toned down in how gruesome this all was.

 

[definitionofinsanity]

Trying to have Japan deplete their resources is surprisingly a sound strategy from them, not that it will work because they don’t have enough to stop them. Japan cannot replenish their weapon at the speed they’re being used. When it comes to advanced weapons they require imports which they do not have here.

This is... absolutely not the case.

As I've pointed out in previous chapter comments, a lot of Japan's defense industry is home-built and they license a ton of stuff and manufacture it in Japan. The design might be American or what have you, but you'd be surprised how much of it is Japanese manufacture.

Things like the Type 90 ASMs you see them using (and launching against the headquarters building... which is not generally what you use an anti-ship missile for and I'm not even sure the Type 90 can readily do that... then again they are based on the RGM-84D Harpoon and that does have the capability of land target strikes - Japanese defense media is pretty spare in English so I dunno) are based on American Harpoons (but they are slightly different designs) and are capable of being made entirely from scratch in Japan so long as they have the materials. Which they can get by exploiting the deals and treaties they already have in place at this point in the time.

Given how many fucking sub-contractors and defense-programs-being-jobs-programs (looks at the F-35) that America has in place and how much of an impact we saw from supply chain issues during COVID... Honestly, Japan is in a better situation than most advanced countries when it comes to self-sufficient supply. What infrastructure they don't have, they could technically build.

They'd never meet the industrial output or technical capability of America if it geared itself for a war footing (I think ironically we can point to 1941-1945 for evidence of that being factual), but compared to a lot of countries... If they were segregated from everyone else, in the short term, they'd be quite well off.

 

[nuttyknight89]

I wonder what the American forces stationed in Japan at the time of its transportation are doing if there are any at all

THAT is a very good question.

Personally I’d like to think that they’d act as defense for the Japanese islands while the JDF is out kicking ass. Not sure exactly how big the Okinawa base is but it should be big enough for that.

 

[definitionofinsanity]

I just want to say that from how this was described in the web translation of the novel this was toned down in how gruesome this all was.

Yeah... I can imagine that... 500 pound Mark 82s tend to... put what was once humans into multiple different areas.

That's when you actually have something that still resembles a human instead of emulsified human meat paste or chunks of charred carbon that might be some part of the body.

 

[definitionofinsanity]

I wonder what the American forces stationed in Japan at the time of its transportation are doing if there are any at all

THAT is a very good question.

Personally I’d like to think that they’d act as defense for the Japanese islands while the JDF is out kicking ass. Not sure exactly how big the Okinawa base is but it should be big enough for that.

Been covered in previous comments in previous chapters. Author of the novel states that all USFJ that were in Japan, all their moored ships, planes, personnel, families, etc. were transported alongside Japan.

They are currently doing fuckall because the author wants a Japanese-only centric story... even if doing that realistically doesn't make sense and the Americans would have something to say about being in a new world and the Japanese would benefit from their assistance.

So there's something like 50,000 American military personnel just... sitting around. Doing nothing. While they have things like the USS Ronald Reagan, a legitimate nuclear supercarrier, in their possession.

 

[definitionofinsanity]

Is it ever addressed how the Japanese resupply their ammo?

They, just like how they are doing now, manufacture their own.

Most equipment, weapons, material, etc. are actually manufactured by Japan domestically.

 

[definitionofinsanity]

They are very reliant on the US though, just take the snake eyes that was used in last chapter that is something they can’t just replace. Honestly the economy should be in shambles after being transported here so trying to increase/change their factories etc to handle all of this would be a nightmare.

...Japan literally makes those. So you'd be wrong.

 

[definitionofinsanity]

I believe it won't be a problem

Spoiler

They would disregard the treaty and start producing their own weapon I mean as someone mentioned they could produce their own but with limited capability cause they lost ww2 as for resource the dudes down south they had a trading thing going on has that covered i believe they found oil there if I remember correctly i think they would also reverse engineer some of the US equipment they have that was left behind cause the Japanese god hates foreigners and left them to die back on earth to drown or something.

Thats what I remember in the LN at least.

...All of United States Forces Japan, including every American ship - including the USS Blue Ridge and supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan and Los Angeles/Virginia (I don't remember and I really don't want to spend the time to look up what was stationed in Japan in 2015 when this novel/manga takes place) submarines and likely several nuclear weapons onboard the Reagan - and every single American aircraft in Japan along with all the soldiers/Marines/airman and all their families were transported alongside Japan and are in the new world with them.

This comes directly from the author himself.

 

[saredesu]

I'm happy (Op)Pai survived. Too bad we don't see her tits, but it was such a poetic epilogue 🤣
Those arcade cabinets, man.

At this point even the author is jamming in the comedy, and I swear I'll rage if it ever gets an anime, it gets that generic-moe-feel-good-low-budget art style. THIS is perfection

 

[outinthegardener]

Good thing Japan already has around a hundred factories capable of doing such a thing anyways right now.

Everyone talks about Japan now no longer being able to produce the hardware when Japan is one of the most advanced tech nations in the world.

They're 3rd in the world behind Taiwan and South Korea in semiconductor production, and are ahead of the USA (4th). The USA frequently imports chips and hardware from them.

Japan usually hurts for raw resources (which is why they lost WW2), but with complete foreign dominionation due to their military power, economic softpower of goods, and growing friendly alliances with multiple nations, they can easily secure access to raw resources from local mainland nations.

Also someone mentioned population and manpower. Japan as a tiny island but modernized urban population today has somewhere like +120m people.

The population of the entire continent of Europe from the 1800s (which is more like the tech level for the countries seen so far at best, some are even further behind) was like 150m.

Japan is the one with the manpower advantage here over single nations from this technologically inferior world.

Have we been shown that Japan has made trade relationships for the raw materials they lack? (oil, coal, iron ore, copper, aluminum and wood are the biggest imports?)

I feel like Japan has an existing stockpiling of modern weaponry, and fuel. But establishing trade to get more raw materials seems tricky. Espcially oil, since this world doesn't have a petroleum economy. I'd want to see them conquer the isekai Middle East for the petroleum reserve.

It feels like the author is "offscreening" these questions. Because "JSDF cool, french musketeers suck"

 

[outinthegardener]

...All of United States Forces Japan, including every American ship - including the USS Blue Ridge and supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan and Los Angeles/Virginia (I don't remember and I really don't want to spend the time to look up what was stationed in Japan in 2015 when this novel/manga takes place) submarines and likely several nuclear weapons onboard the Reagan - and every single American aircraft in Japan along with all the soldiers/Marines/airman and all their families were transported alongside Japan and are in the new world with them.

This comes directly from the author himself.

If I'm the commander of the US Aircraft Carrier groups stationed in Tokyo Harbor, I'd have to choose between swearing allegiance to the Japanese government (as fellow Isekai'd people) or I would try to take over. The US forces would be bolstered if Okinawa was also isekai'd, but we don't know that. Probably, my gut says, they joined Japan.

 

[Dvv]

LET THEM SWANG

 

[nuttyknight89]

Been covered in previous comments in previous chapters. Author of the novel states that all USFJ that were in Japan, all their moored ships, planes, personnel, families, etc. were transported alongside Japan.

They are currently doing fuckall because the author wants a Japanese-only centric story... even if doing that realistically doesn't make sense and the Americans would have something to say about being in a new world and the Japanese would benefit from their assistance.

So there's something like 50,000 American military personnel just... sitting around. Doing nothing. While they have things like the USS Ronald Reagan, a legitimate nuclear supercarrier, in their possession.

Thank you very much for this. I don’t always have time to read the comments on every chapter of a series I pick up.

 

[Wolvenworks]

...But we don't get to see them...

I too want to see Pai’s oppai

 

[elrorro]

Author-Kun Got horny in those last pages lmao.

 

[definitionofinsanity]

If I'm the commander of the US Aircraft Carrier groups stationed in Tokyo Harbor, I'd have to choose between swearing allegiance to the Japanese government (as fellow Isekai'd people) or I would try to take over. The US forces would be bolstered if Okinawa was also isekai'd, but we don't know that. Probably, my gut says, they joined Japan.

What's more likely is they formed their own American enclave in Okinawa or somewhere else and keep friendly allied relations with Japan.

Continuity of government is a huge thing for the American government (we have lines of succession much more further down the line than most countries and we have things like the designated survivor). That would be very difficult with likely no Congressional members being in Japan at the time, but you could have a military junta/martial law for a bit and maybe have elections in the new world after things go down. American ambassador would be in Japan would likely present a civilian-government official choice and be the most senior member of authority there.