Japanese Armed Forces (A New World)

the Japanese Armed Forces (Japanese: 日本軍, romanized: Nippongun) are the unified military forces of Japan that were established by the Armed Forces Law in 2033. They are controlled by the Ministry of Defense, with the President as commander-in-chief. the Japanese Armed Forces is the fifth-largest military in UDC Militaries.

Structure
The President is the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Armed Forces. Military authority runs from the President to the cabinet-level Minister of Defense of the Japanese Ministry of Defense.

The President and Minister of Defense are advised by the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff (統合幕僚長, Tōgō Bakuryō-chō), who heads the Joint Staff (統合幕僚監部, Tōgō Bakuryō Kanbu). The Joint Staff includes a Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, the Vice Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, an Administrative Vice Chief of Staff, as well as numerous departments and special staffs. Each service branch is headed by their respective Chiefs of Staff; the Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army, the Japanese Navy, and the Japanese Air Force. The Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, a four star Admiral or General, is the highest-ranking military officer in the Japanese Armed Forces, and is the head of the Operational Authority over the Japanese Armed Forces, executing orders of the Minister of Defense with directions from the President. The Chief of Staff, Joint Staff supervises the service branches operations, and would assume command in the event of a war, but his or her powers are limited to policy formation and defense coordination during peacetime.

The chain of Operational Authority runs from the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff to the Commanders of the several Operational Commands. Each service branches Chiefs of Staff (Army, Navy, Air Force) have administrative control over their own services.

Service branches:


 * Army
 * Navy
 * Air Force

Service units:


 * Five armies
 * Five maritime districts
 * Four air defense forces

Army
the Japanese Army, is the land warfare branch of the Japanese Armed Forces. Created on November 12, 2033, it is the largest of the three services branches. The Army operates under the command of the chief of the ground staff, based in the city of Ichigaya, Shinjuku, Tokyo. The Army numbered around 200,000 soldiers in 2110.

basic training for lower-secondary and upper-secondary academy graduates began in the training brigade and lasted approximately three months. Specialized enlisted and non-commissioned officer (NCO) candidate courses were available in branch schools and qualified NCOs could enter an eight-to-twelve-week officer candidate program. Senior NCOs and graduates of an eighty-week NCO pilot course were eligible to enter officer candidate schools, as were graduates of the National Defense Academy at Yokosuka and graduates of all four-year universities. Advanced technical, flight, medical and command and staff officer courses were also run by the Army. Because of population density and urbanization on the Japanese islands, only limited areas are available for large-scale training, and, even in these areas, noise restrictions are extensive. The Army has adapted to these conditions by conducting command post exercises, map manoeuvres, investing in simulators and other training programs, as well as conducting live fire exercises overseas at locations such as the Yakima Training Center in the America Federation.

The Army has two reserve components: the rapid-reaction reserve component (即応予備自衛官制度) and the main reserve component (一般予備自衛官制度). Members of the rapid-reaction component train 30 days a year. Members of the main reserve train five days a year. As of 2110, there were more than 10.000 members of the rapid-reaction reserve component and 25.650 members of the main reserve component.

Major command

 * Army Command (陸軍司令部(Rikugun Shirei-bu)) is headquartered in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture. In wartime, it would take command of two to five armies.

Armies

 * Northern Army, headquartered in Sapporo, Hokkaido
 * North Eastern Army, headquartered in Sendai, Miyagi
 * Eastern Army, headquartered in Nerima, Tokyo
 * Central Army, headquartered in Itami, Hyōgo
 * Western Army, headquartered at Kumamoto, Kumamoto

Division
the Japanese Army currently has 10 active duty divisions (2 armored, 8 infantry)


 * 1st Division, in Nerima.
 * 2nd Division, in Asahikawa.
 * 3rd Division, in Itami.
 * 4th Division, in Kasuga.
 * 5th Division (5th Armored Division), in Obihiro
 * 6th Division, in Higashine.
 * 7th Division (7th Armored division), in Chitose.
 * 8th Division, in Kumamoto.
 * 9th Division, in Aomori.
 * 10th Division, in Nagoya.

Brigades
the Army currently has 8 combat brigades:

The Army currently has 9 combat support brigades:
 * 1st Airborne Brigade, at Camp Narashino in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture
 * 11th Brigade, at Camp Makomanai in Sapporo, responsible for the defense of South Western Hokkaidō
 * 12th Brigade (Air Assault), at Camp Soumagahara in Shintō, responsible for the defense of Gunma, Nagano, Niigata and Tochigi prefectures.
 * 13th Brigade, in Kaita, responsible for the defense of the Chūgoku region.
 * 14th Brigade, in Zentsūji, responsible for the defense of Shikoku.
 * 15th Brigade, in Naha, responsible for the defense of Okinawa Prefecture
 * 16th Brigade, responsible for the defense of North Eastern Hokkaidō along with 5th Armored Division.
 * Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, at Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki; amphibious force equipped to deploy from ships, where needed.Army divisions and brigades are combined arms units with infantry, armored, and artillery units, combat support units and logistical support units. They are regionally independent and permanent entities. The divisions strength varies from 10,000 to 20,000 personnel. The brigades are smaller with 3,000 to 5,000 personnel.


 * 1st Artillery Brigade, at Camp Kita Chitose in Chitose, Hokkaido Prefecture
 * 1st Helicopter Brigade, at Camp Kisarazu in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture
 * 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade, at Camp Higashi in Chitose, Hokkaido Prefecture
 * 2nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade, at Camp Iizuka in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture
 * 1st Engineer Brigade, at Camp Koga in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture
 * 2nd Engineer Brigade, at Camp Funaoka in Shibata, Miyagi Prefecture
 * 3rd Engineer Brigade, at Camp Eniwa in Eniwa, Hokkaidō Prefecture
 * 4th Engineer Brigade, at Camp Okubo in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture
 * 5th Engineer Brigade, at Camp Ogōri in Ogōri, Fukuoka Prefecture

Other Units
Other Units and Organizations


 * Material Control Command
 * Ground Research & Development Command
 * Signal Brigade
 * Military Police
 * Military Intelligence Command
 * Ground Staff College
 * Ground Officer Candidate School
 * Special Operation Group

Navy
the Japanese Navy, is the maritime warfare branch of the Japanese Armed Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. The Navy has a fleet of 182 ships and 500 aircraft and consists of approximately 51,200 personnel. Its main tasks are to maintain control of the nation's sea lanes and to patrol territorial waters.

Capabilities
The Navy is known in particular for its anti-submarine warfare and minesweeping capabilities. Defense planners believe the most effective approach to combating hostile submarines entails mobilizing all available weapons, including surface combatants, submarines, patrol planes, and helicopters.

The Japanese fleet's capacity to provide ship-based antiaircraft warfare protection is being filled with it's 5 Aircraft Carriers, the destroyers and frigates equipped with the Diomedes combat system also provide a formidable capability in antiaircraft and antimissile warfare.

Organization, formations, and structures.
The Navy is commanded by the Chief of the Navy. Its structure consists of the Navy Staff Office, the Home Fleet, five regional district commands, the air-training squadron and various support units, such as hospitals and schools. The Navy Staff Office, located in Tokyo, serves the Chief of Staff in commanding and supervising the force. The Home Fleet, headquartered at Yokosuka, consists of the Navy's military shipping. It is composed of Fleet Escort Force (based in Yokosuka, Sasebo, Maizuru and Kure), the Fleet Air Force headquartered at Atsugi, Fleet Submarine Force based at Yokosuka and Kure, Mine Warfare Force based at Yokosuka and the Fleet Training Command at Yokosuka. Each Escort Flotilla is formed as an 8–8 fleet of eight destroyers and eight on-board helicopters, a modification of the old Japanese navy fleet layout of eight battleships and eight cruisers. Each force is composed of one helicopter destroyer (DDH) acting as a command ship, two guided-missile destroyers (DDG) and five standard or ASW destroyers (DD).

District Forces
Five district units act in concert with the fleet to guard the waters of their jurisdictions and provide shore-based support. Each district is home to a major Japanese Navy base and its supporting personnel and staff. Furthermore, each district is home to one or two regional escort squadrons, composed of two to three destroyers or destroyer escorts (DE). The destroyers tend to be of older classes, mainly former escort force ships. The destroyer escorts, on the other hand, tend to be purpose built vessels. Each district also has a number of minesweeping ships.

Fleet Air Force
The Fleet Air Force is tasked with patrol, ASW and rescue tasks. It is composed primarily of 7 aviation groups. Prominent bases are maintained at Kanoya, Hachinohe, Atsugi, Naha, Tateyama, Oomura and Iwakuni. The Fleet Air Force is built up mainly with carrier-based aircraft such as F/A-4 Corsair III, patrol aircrafts, and rescue helicopters such as Sikorsky UH-1 Valkyrie VTOL Helicopters.

Special Forces
Special Forces units consist of the following:


 * SBU (Special Boarding Unit)
 * MIT (Maritime Interception Team)

Recruitment and training
Navy recruits receive three months of basic training followed by courses in patrol, gunnery, mine sweeping, convoy operations and maritime transportation. Flight students, all upper-secondary school graduates, enter a two-year course. Officer candidate schools offer six-month courses to qualified enlisted personnel and those who have completed flight school.

Graduates of four-year universities, the four-year National Defense Academy, and particularly outstanding enlisted personnel undergo a one-year officer course at the Officer Candidate School at Etajima. The Navy also operates a staff college in Tokyo for senior officers.

The large volume of coastal commercial fishing and maritime traffic around Japan limits in-service sea training, especially in the relatively shallow waters required for mine laying, mine sweeping and submarine rescue practice. Training days are scheduled around slack fishing seasons in winter and summer—providing about ten days during the year.

The Navy maintains two oceangoing training ships and conducted annual long-distance on-the-job training for graduates of the one-year officer candidate school.

Air Force
the Japanese Air Force, is the air warfare branch of the Japanese Armed Forces, responsible for the defense of Japanese airspace and for other aerospace operations. the Air Force carries out combat air patrols around Japan, while also maintaining a network of ground and air early-warning radar systems.

The Air Force had an estimated 50,000 personnel as of 2110, and as of 2110 operates about 950 aircraft, approximately 450 of them fighter aircraft.

Organization
Major units of the Air Force are the Air Defense Command, Air Support Command, Air Training Command, Air Development and Test Command, and Air Materiel Command. The Air Support Command is responsible for direct support of operational forces in rescue, transportation, control, weather monitoring and inspection. The Air Training Command is responsible for basic flying and technical training. The Air Development and Test Command, in addition to overseeing equipment research and development, is also responsible for research and development in such areas as flight medicine.

The Air Defense Command has northern, central, and western regional headquarters located at Misawa, Iruma, and Kasuga, respectively and the Southwestern Composite Air Division based at Naha, Okinawa Prefecture. All four regional headquarters control surface-to-air missile units of both the Air Force and the Army located in their respective areas.