History UsefulNotes / KaijuDefenseForce

* The "Justice and Judgement" segment of ''[[VideoGame/LethalEnforcers Lethal Enforcers 3]]'' has you in the shoes of a JGSDF soldier on a mission to stop terrorists at a nuclear power plant. In the final mission of the game, [[TitleDrop "Lethal Enforcers 3"]], [[spoiler: you face off against rogue JGSDF soldiers attempting a coup d'etat on the National Diet Building.]]

Japan is currently looking for some new fighter jets. It ''wants'' the F-22 ultimately, (good luck with that, as the US has made it clear that ''nobody'' [[NoExportForYou gets F-22 exports]]) but is currently evaluating some of the 4.5 generation fighters and ultimately are buying a small number of F-35s. In light of the continued refusal of the US to allow F-22 exports, Japan decided to [[StartMyOwn make their own twin-engine 5th generation stealth fighter)]], with the experimental [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_X-2_Shinshin Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin]] as a testbed as well as collaborations with foreign companies.[[note]]Northrop Grumman is apparently considered a frontrunner to be Mitsubishi's design partner, leading to widespread speculation that the Japanese stealth fighter will be based on their own YF-23 Black Widow that narrowly lost the competition with the YF-22 for the US Air Force contract.[[/note]]

* In ''Franchise/Patlabor'', the JSDF has the best HumongousMecha in the country and occasionally cooperate with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Captain Fuwa of the JSDF is also a high school friend of police Captain Nagumo, who sometimes calls out favors from her.

* In ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'', the JSDF has the best HumongousMecha in the country and occasionally cooperate with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Captain Fuwa of the JSDF is also a high school friend of police Captain Nagumo, who sometimes calls out favors from her.

* Two JASDF F-15 fighters show up in ''LightNovel/FateZero'' to investigate on the disturbance in Fuyuki City. One is downed by the monster, while the other is hijacked by Berserker and used to fight Cthulhu and attack Saber before Lancer shoots it down.

And speaking of exports, Japanese-designed weapons such as tanks and aircraft (and even the [=JSDF=]'s small arms) were for the longest time never meant to be for export because of the "Three Principles on Arms Exports", which doesn't allow any of them to be exported. However on April 1, 2014, the restrictions were changed under Abe's government with the "Three Principles on Arms Exports to Three Principles on Defense Equipment Transfers" enacted, in part due to the necessity of having Patriot missiles in Japan to defend itself from (mainly) North Korean ballistic missiles. These restrictions have now been done away with as of mid-2014 under the Abe administration, with [[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/stealth-tech-no-given-in-japanese-sub-deal/#.VOg2k4EsHHI Australia]] now [[http://thediplomat.com/2014/10/australias-delicate-soryu-sub-balancing-act/ looking to purchase]] ''Soryu''-class attack submarines from Japan, the first Japanese arms sale to be done in decades. [[ShaggyDogStory The deal ultimately fell apart, and Australia decided to buy its submarines from France instead.]]