二战结束后，日本作为战败国，军事曾一度受到严格限制，很长一段时间内奉行“重富国，轻军备”的和平主义吉田路线。然而伴随着日本崛起为世界第二经济大国，加上美国的包庇和纵容，相当一段时期以来尤其是冷战结束后，日本军事力量却不断突破，军事因素在其国家战略中的地位? After the end of World War II, Japan, as a defeated nation, was once severely restricted in military affairs and pursued a pacifist Yoshida line of “heavyweights and light armaments” for a long period of time. However, with the rise of Japan as the second largest economy in the world and the harboring and connivance of the United States, Japan has continuously made breakthroughs in military forces and military factors in its national strategy for quite some time, especially after the Cold War.