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Japan's Unknown Soldiers; The Japanese military has long lived in the shadow of its past. But confronted by a dangerous world, it's once again readying itself for war.
Byline: Evan Thomas and Hideko Takayama
Etajima, The Officer Candidate School of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), is a demanding military academy. Awakened by a bugle call at 6 a.m., midshipmen throw on uniforms and race outside to form up and be corrected by "discipline officers." Midshipmen, in fact, run everywhere. "We steal their time," says an assistant discipline officer. The midshipmen study not only social science and English, but navigation, ship-handling and even infantry tactics. Before they are commissioned as officers, midshipmen must swim--breaststroke, in formation--more than 12 kilometers in the waters of Etajima Bay. The grueling ...
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