
The ruling LDP is contemplating a plan which would see hikikomori, NEETs, the unemployed and other undesirables bundled off to army boot camps to learn such useful trades as tree felling and ditch digging.
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A US warship, the USS Blue Ridge, caused controversy as it docked at a Nagasaki harbor, despite refusal of entry from the mayor and regional governor.
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This interesting ita-tank, decorated with Hatsune Miku decals, painted in her trademark blue and even given a negi colored gun barrel was seen recently at an Osaka hobby shop, where it fits in quite nicely with all the other WWII era war machines besides it.
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An F-4 Phantom, one of the premier jet fighter-bombers of the previous century, then in service with western militaries the world over, displaying nose art which will be distinctly familiar to many of you: Belldandy, Skuld and Urd, of Ah! My Goddess.
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A gallery of objects curiously rendered into moe female characters. Rather purely exploring than the usual military or software themes, here we also see anthropomorphised food, coins, cigarettes and mobile phones, along with a great deal of other odd creations.
Eraser-tan and Derringer-tan struck me as rather amusing, along with Nvidia-tan…
See them on the Channel.
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Strike Witch and Sergeant of the Fuso Imperial Navy Yoshika Miyafuji is here engaged in flight training using an Imperial Flight Simulator.
There are in fact various mods for the likes of IL-2 Sturmovik and BF1942 which feature striker unit using witches, but most will likely settle for a readily downloadable STG game instead…

Female soldiers of the world. I leave it to you to establish just which is possessed of the most formidable moe force, though looking at the above comparison the choices seem rather limited.
As you can see below, Japan seems to have a unique regional defence strategy:
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A major (36) in the Air Self-Defence Force has been arrested for nakedly buying pantsu and stockings in the middle of the night at a local convenience store, we hear.
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