Meanwhile in Japan

"So they have to bomb us first this time?"

The Strategy Page on the touchy legal issues facing the Japanese government:

The Japanese Minister of Defense is calling for efforts to work out the military and legal issues that would result if Japanese were attacked by extraterrestrials. Two members of the Japanese cabinet have expressed personal beliefs in the existence of extraterrestrials out there, somewhere. Because of Japans 1947 constitution, there are restrictions on what actions the military can take. Basically, the Japanese military is, technically, a purely defensive force. But an extraterrestrial invasion might play out in ways that would find the Japanese military prevented, by lawyers, from moving against an extraterrestrial menace.

We're not making this up.

I could say something about a military establishment that could be stopped by lawyers, but I'm not going to say it.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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