Osamu wrote:
Are we already conquered again?
Of course you have. You need to ask? Japan cannot do anything without America's permission. But it is wrong to say Japan is conquered "again". To say Japan is conquered "again" implies that Japan was liberated after it was conquered in the WW2. But Japan was never liberated because America has maintained its dominance over Japan and treated it as a conquered subject.
Japan should do the right thing and apologize sincerely to the Chinese for their brutal crimes against Chinese humanity during their invasions of China over the last 150 years. Then there will be clusure. Following which, China can help Japan to kick out the Americans and establish a truly peaceful Asia.
But the Japnese are still steeped in their arrogance thinking China is inferior. Know that China was at its lowest point historically over the last couple of hundred years. That is why China was too weak to defend itself against the invasion of foreign armies including the Japnese Imperial Army. Today, China is not even 1/10 recovered but already it is stronger than Japan with almost twice the purchasing power GDP than Japan - $8 trillion to $4.4 trillion (see Wiki China and Japan). And China's overall military is far more powerful than Japan's. The Japnese army has no chance of invading China against its millions of soldiers equipped with modern arms equivalent to anything America has from main battle tanks to Apache equivalent attack helicopters and interconnected with the state of the art computerized information network. The Japnese airforce is far smaller and inferior with its 300 outdated and obsolete F-15 and F-16 while China's air force has at least some 700 4th generation fighters such as J-10, J-11, Su-27, Su-30, etc. with ultra-modern electronics, radars, missiles, etc. which allow them to fly circles around the obsolete Japnese fighters. And the Chinese navy has far more ships than the Japnese navy.
China:
Navy:
250,000 personnel
Aircraft Carriers 1
Destroyers 25
Frigates 47
Submarines 63 (6 nuclear attack submarines)
Missile boats 91
Air Force:
J-10 260
J-11 140
J-20 4
Su27 76
Su-30 99
J-7 350
J-8 360
Total: 1,289
(The above number of Chinese fighters is for 2010. Since then China should have added at least 100 new fighters of all types per year. So China's 4th and 5th generation fighters should now (end of 2012) exceed 700.)
Japan:
Navy:
45,800 personnel
Helicopter destroyers 4
Destroyers 8
Frigates 30
Frigates (light) 6
Submarines 21
Air force:
F-15 -- 213
F-2 (F-16) -- 94
F-4 -- 107
Total: 414And as China shifts its economic development mode from cheap exports to domestic upgrading, its growth will certainly accelerate. The current goal is to double the incomes of the Chinese people over the next 10 years. That goal will obviously be easily reached and exceeded. Ultimately, within 30 years, China will attain an economic size of $100 trillion (2011 PP) while Japan will shrink down to $3.5 trillion due to population contraction and technological competition. This means China's economy will be some 30 times bigger than Japan, which in turn means China's military will be some 30 times bigger than Japan. Japnese have no idea what a truly resurged China looks like.
So the Japnese should do the smart thing and apologize sincerely to China and so bring an old era to a close to begin a new one. Japnese people will then be safer and live in dignity. Otherwise, China will isolate Japan; and Japan will continue to be America's bitch dangling all by itself at the western edge of the Pacific with declining trade and increasing poverty.