Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

This older form of evaluation is closer to Shang Yang's agricultural and military model.

The lack of freedom naturally refers to the strong control similar to that of pre-war Japanese imperialism. The so-called homogeneous society is a society where "we are all Chinese." This term is commonly used by liberals who believe that a homogeneous society is a cruel oppression of individuals and minorities, and that it should be more inclusive and diverse like American universities. A significant portion of them directly aspire to and are enthusiastic about the campus life.

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In Japan's homogeneous society, which lacks freedom, people tacitly accept that even the Emperor is not free and must obey the collective will.

Li Xinghe, on the other hand, transcends this system, displaying the demeanor of a five-star emperor.

He is currently lying in Zhao Lieshu's home, receiving a gentle massage from Xuan Zhihua's mother.

Higashikawa Yukami massaged Li Xinghe's waist with her two extra-long fingers, while also reading intelligence to him:

"We found out. The person suspected of inciting public discontent is the head of a branch of the emerging Nichiren sect, the Reiyukai, who calls himself Kashiwazaki Gaku of the Sodo Kyouzokai."

Even in the new century, Nichiren Buddhism continues to thrive in Japan. Leaving aside those that have legitimately transitioned to mainstream practices like the Soka Gakkai and Komeito, dozens of other branches with different origins and millions of followers exist beneath the surface. These groups, along with cults affiliated with Christian branches, form a widespread cult-like network that has even alarmed the Ministry of Public Security.

"Still Nichiren sect?"

Li Xinghe really had a headache.

"Don't forget, you are too." Yukimi-chan rolled her eyes.

By the way, Li Xinghe's other alias, Nichiren Zhao of the Blood Alliance, is also a branch of the Nichiren Sect.

"Could it be an American behind it all?" Lee Ju-yeon asked quietly, perking up her ears.

"Not necessarily, at least not directly."

Several people were discussing it.

Li Xinghe complained:

"Americans have a view that South Korea is good in every way except for its disloyalty. Japan is relatively reliable, but it can't compare to South Korea in any way. They have tried very hard to control these two countries, including religion, education, culture, and entertainment, but they can never grasp the core."

In the short term, the United States relies more on Japan.

In the long run, the United States needs South Korea more.

Japan and South Korea have vastly different historical positions and current situations.

As a victim of World War II, South Korea, whether from a historical or moral standpoint, is still one of the countries without historical burdens, even with the existence of despicable figures like Syngman Rhee.

On the tiny Korean Peninsula, two small hegemons, South Korea and North Korea, are squeezed together, and they are gradually becoming independent of other countries. Even if Russia, the United States, and even China all leave the peninsula, South Korea and North Korea can still manage.

Therefore, during Roh Moo-hyun's era, South Korea began to reclaim wartime command authority. South Korea's military industry gradually became an indispensable military factory for NATO. With the South Korean army able to build up its numbers by sheer numbers, and with the Eighth Army stationed in South Korea now crippled, South Korea is indeed good in every way. The only problem is its disloyalty to the United States.

The disloyalty here refers to South Korea's ability to go its own way.

But Japan is completely different. Its fate is to choose between the 'US-Japan Security Treaty' and the 'China-Japan Security Treaty' because it is indeed a defeated country in World War II and bears the original sin of history.

Once the US withdraws and China doesn't interfere, Japan's wealth alone makes it the biggest fat sheep in East Asia, and even the Philippines wants to tear a piece off of it.

Therefore, Japan must, to some extent, maintain 'absolute loyalty' to the United States, even if this is only a formal form of self-preservation.

However, while Japan is loyal, it lacks ability.

Whether it's Japan's lackluster and abstract Self-Defense Force system or its conservative and closed domestic market and military procurement system, both infuriate the Americans, yet they are powerless to do anything about it.

……

Hawaii at this time.

As Lee Sung-ha said, South Korea is good to the United States in every way, except for its lack of loyalty.

While passing through Hawaii, employees of Hyundai Shipyard in South Korea, who were discussing cooperation with the U.S. Navy to build Aegis destroyers, happened to spot a rusty, ghost ship-like lump of iron at sea from a lookout point on a cape while sightseeing.

"What kind of ship is that...?"

Several people took turns observing, and finally, through the decaying ship's emblem, they saw a faint CVN-68, confirming that it was the Nimitz, which was scheduled to be decommissioned in 2027, but now its nuclear power plant is about to explode and it has been malfunctioning for two out of three days.

They immediately began reporting to headquarters:

"The Nimitz! We've spotted the Nimitz! Quick, report this back to the Presidential Palace. The Nimitz has been quietly operating in the North Pacific. What the hell? They've deployed three aircraft carriers just to cause trouble for Li Ka-ka?"

This might be a joke.

If two aircraft carriers couldn't handle the Houthi rebels, how could three aircraft carriers possibly overwhelm Li Xinghe?

Even South Koreans don't believe that these old aircraft carriers, which look like they're about to be buried, can defeat Lee Sung-ha, who is still active in Northeast Asia.

Suddenly, that spinelessness I had developed in fear of America seemed to have been cured.

When the news reached Li Xinghe, he finally felt relieved.

We've finally seen America's backup plan.

The news was not blocked.

Soon, South Korean and Japanese media reported on the situation where three aircraft carriers were attacking from the north and south, respectively, appearing in the Philippine Sea and the North Pacific.

The general public naturally doesn't understand it, and various military commentary media are also wondering: are the three aircraft carriers in the Asia-Pacific region aimed at China?

Meanwhile, Li Xinghe in Tokyo wondered why:

"Deploying three aircraft carriers just to cause me trouble. Isn't that a huge show of force? Could it be that they're secretly plotting to kill me, or actually trying to provoke a war in East Asia? Like starting a war between North and South Korea? But that wouldn't benefit the United States either, would it?"

Unable to understand Vance's strange hatred, Li Xinghe was left with only a question mark.

Given this, Li Xinghe was even more motivated to spend money to save his life.

During this period, he completely transformed Tokyo into an air defense fortress.

Five S-300 and three S-400 series air defense missile systems were brought back from Russia and North Korea, respectively. This included dozens of MAZ-543 military truck chassis used to build four types of radar vehicles, nearly one hundred 5P855 missile transport vehicles, several radar illumination vehicles, and a brigade-level command vehicle, forming an air defense missile special forces brigade deployed around the Imperial Palace and Tokyo. This expenditure alone cost $25 billion. Li Xinghe, who had resold 20 million barrels of Russian oil, had only earned $400 million so far; it was all gone. This shows that making money from the Russians isn't so easy after all.

This sum alone is enough for Putin and the general to build countless small villas.

Up to 200 more Jeep infantry fighting vehicles equipped with individual anti-aircraft missiles were brought back from North Korea and assigned to the 1st and 2nd Combined Divisions for mechanized formation. This was quite cheap; Li Xinghe only paid a friendly price of $700,000 per vehicle.

Li Xinghe also acquired a battalion of HQ-9B air defense missiles. At $1.5 million per set, he got a super low price.

This was only because the Japanese purchasing representative was actually beaten so badly by the Chinese representative that they were forced to offer a drastically reduced price.

The domestically produced YLC-2E meter-wave radar has also arrived. As a search radar for special attacks against the B2 stealth bomber, it was immediately deployed near the Budokan in the Kita Maru of the Imperial Palace for 24/7 surveillance.

Officers from the Ministry of Defense and the Unified Operations Command were summoned to participate in drills and exercises involving advanced radar and missiles.

Then they saw the enhanced air defense special forces brigade that Li Xinghe had purchased at great expense, along with various instructors accompanying the brigade.

"Chinese, Russians, Koreans..."

The air defense missile systems of the three countries are largely derived from or heavily referenced by Russia's S-series, so unified command and learning are not as difficult as leapfrog development. They are still experimenting with ways to reduce mutual interference between radar waves and form a multi-angle, multi-regional search array.

For a time, the skies above Tokyo resembled an electronic hell. The Aegis phased-array radars, S-400 search radars, HQ-9B searchlight radars, and meter-wave radars specifically designed to search for stealth bombers were all firing at each other on various frequencies, creating a devastating electronic environment.

Even a fly-sized drone passing over Tokyo would be spotted and beaten up, let alone an ordinary airplane.

But a day passed, two days passed, and many days passed.

Scarlett's due date has been postponed twice, and the US warships are still dragging their feet.

The Toyota-BYD joint venture factory, located on an artificial island in Yokohama, has completed its construction and is ready to export joint venture cars to the Americas.

Li Xinghe was furious, extremely dissatisfied with the slow and incompetent pace of the American imperialists.

Where is your three-carrier strike group?

Where the hell are your F35, F15, and F16?

I spent over three billion US dollars on you!

"Damn it, where's the American aircraft carrier? Why is it so slow?"

Just as Li Xinghe was getting blisters on his lips and arguing with the doctor about performing a cesarean section on Scarlett, the US military finally started moving slowly.

The belated dual-carrier strike group, arriving late from the waters north of the Philippines, suddenly made a turn and headed north towards Japan without prior notice.

From this point on, a huge problem was exposed in the air wing of the USS Kennedy and USS Washington.

Unbeknownst to them, in this sea area traditionally dominated by their own forces, there were actually Japanese Coast Guard vessels mingling daily with Chinese Coast Guard ships, firing indiscriminately at the Filipinos. They even went so far as to land on the island and establish contact with their close relatives, the indigenous people of Taiwan.

The Japanese are now familiar with how the Ryukyu model works.

For the past year or so, this dual-carrier strike group has been camped next to the shipyard in Newport News. They were completely unaware of the changes in the situation in East Asia. Many officers and sailors disembarked and never returned. Now, the captains have all been replaced.

Completely unaware that several Japanese coast guard vessels had appeared nearby, the two carrier strike groups were still discussing their battle plans.

"According to internal intelligence, numerous military bases have been built on many islands in the Okinawa archipelago. The radar signals from these bases will guide us along the way. They will release false intelligence to the Japanese, deceiving their identification systems and assisting you in flying towards..."

The flight formation then took off and landed over the sea area of ​​Ishigaki Island, Miyako Island, and other islands on the southwesternmost side of the Okinawa Islands.

Here, they should have been guided by local radar to provide camouflage signals.

Then they discovered that there was no such base or signal, nor any false identity or signal to deceive the identification system, because the so-called military camp on the island was just an empty space, and the towering radar was actually a fake radar frame.

The Japanese people on the ground looked up curiously, and upon seeing them, they all took out their phones to take pictures.

The pilots were dumbfounded; the entire flight formation was stuck in the air.

"Where are my bases? Where are all my distributed bases?"

You wouldn't believe it, but Li Xinghe received $600 billion in continuous reparations from the Americans, saying he would use a portion to repair US military bases on other islands in the Okinawa Islands. In reality, he only allocated the land and never started construction!

Chapter 752: Wild Planes and Wild Missiles, Tokyo's Iron Wall and the Mysterious Worldline (5300 words)

What do we do?

The Washington and Kennedy air formations, which were harmed by Li Xinghe's laziness, were refueling in the air while feeling lost.

They departed from the northern waters of the Philippines and had already flown hundreds of kilometers. After refueling in the air, their ground attack range was very limited. They had to fly to the airspace west of Tokyo immediately to launch their air-to-ground missiles and then return to base urgently.

"Requesting guidance from higher authorities... No, let's keep moving forward."

The squadron leader in charge remembered the orders he received when he took off and had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue flying forward.

If I were to reveal without authorization that the air force bases here are all fake and dubious, I might face retaliation from someone in the Pentagon when I get back.

The less trouble, the better.

Japan's airspace surveillance is the responsibility of the Air Self-Defense Force, which divides the country into four air surveillance and control groups: North, Central, West, and Southwest. It has also built 29 air defense surveillance posts throughout the country.

The defense and surveillance of the sea area where the F-18 formation is currently located is being handled by the Western Air Guard Group of Kyushu Island.

While the F-18EF boasts excellent stealth capabilities, as a fourth-generation-plus aircraft forcibly classified as a 'fifth-generation fighter,' its stealth performance is clearly inferior to that of a fifth-generation fighter. Moreover, they were flying in Japanese airspace, and ground-based radar stations around the world were already tracking them at full power.

The improved J/fps-3 active phased array radar used by Japan for air defense surveillance is a large, fixed radar manufactured by Mitsubishi. It has a maximum detection range of 610 kilometers and is quite effective at detecting aircraft and missiles.

Therefore, even though Li Xinghe had already ordered them to strengthen their vigilance, the 15th monitoring station in the Goto Islands, the 9th monitoring station off the coast of Nagasaki City, and the 13th monitoring station in Miyazaki City quickly detected the rapidly approaching F-18 formation.

The detected radar signal alerted the F-18 formation in the air.

"We've been locked on by radar! Maneuver! Evade!"

In modern air combat, the rule is: detect and destroy.

Therefore, this F-18-EF naval formation performed a series of tactical evasive maneuvers over Kyushu Island, drawing difficult trajectories in the air to try to avoid anti-aircraft missiles that might be launched from the ground-to-air direction. However, after a series of jumps and turns, there was nothing on the onboard radar.

It's just wishful thinking on my part.

Although it was locked, there was no response.

The crew was once again confused:

"They didn't react."

The captain in charge of air command was completely disoriented; the mission he was carrying out today felt almost like a dream. The expected US military base radar station was nowhere to be found, and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces that had locked onto them were not responding.

Should we continue moving forward?

"Keep going."

They pressed on despite their difficulties.

However, Li Xinghe was not satisfied.

Joint Operations Command Headquarters.

With the US carrier strike group already detected by the Huang series military satellites, everyone was waiting here for the situation to unfold. Several generals and chiefs of staff stood up with their heads down, none of them daring to speak.

Li Xinghe slammed his fist on the table in a fit of rage as he looked at the data transmitted from the southwest:

"Give me the Western Air Guard Command!"

The other party answered the phone quickly.

Li Xinghe's anger erupted like a thousand flames along the telephone line: