Japan's Navy Lacks an Aircraft Carrier for This One Reason
Robert Farley
Security, Asia
Politics.
Here's What You Need to Know: The only serious obstacles to Japan’s construction of fleet carriers are political.
Japan has decided to refit its Izumo-class light carriers to operate the F-35B stealth fighter. So modified, the Izumos will carry about a dozen F-35Bs each, giving the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force a small but significant aviation combat capability.
The question now is “what comes next?”
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