Recently, the September issue of mamor, an official magazine of the Japanese Ministry of Defense, was released, with the cover of the Goddess of Defense (防人たちの神) as a cute actor wearing a Maritime Self-Defense Force uniform.
Jointly published by the Japanese Ministry of Defense and FusoSha, mamor magazine is the only public magazine co-edited by the Japanese Ministry of Defense, with an official color, mainly introducing the policies of the Ministry of Defense and the activities of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, and positioning itself as a "soft propaganda magazine" and "readable propaganda material". The magazine's readership is aimed not only at military fans, but also at large ordinary people, with the aim of spreading defense knowledge to the people and drawing their attention to the Defense and Self-Defense Forces.
The magazine's characteristics are very distinctive: entertainment stars are invited to put on the uniforms of the Self-Defense Forces and serve as the cover girls of each issue, in only one posture: military salute. These stars are known as the "goddess of defense". As for the purpose of this, it is mainly to attract those who do not care about the Self-Defense Forces, especially the otaku who are addicted to online games and comics, to pay attention to the Self-Defense Forces, so as to achieve the purpose of publicizing the Self-Defense Forces to attract them to the army.
The content of this issue of the magazine mainly includes two parts, one is to introduce the sea self-clearance team, tell the basic knowledge of mines, the situation of the mine clearance team, the treatment of underwater explosives, and review the history of sea clearance for more than 70 years since World War II. The history of the Maritime Self-Defense Force began with the removal of mines after the war. The famous Hunger Campaign during World War II had a huge impact on Japan's surrender.
The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force has a specific division of labor under the U.S. defense system and is known as the Seventh Fleet Minesweeper Brigade. According to the mamor article, in 1991, this force was the first overseas practical mission of the Self-Defense Forces to the Persian Gulf. The number of experiences in the actual task of sweeping the sea is second to none in the world, so the technology has been formed, and now "sea sweeping" is known as Japan's housekeeping skill.
The second is to introduce the situation of the Air-Self First Anti-Aircraft Group, a unit equipped with Patriot missiles and tasked with intercepting ballistic missiles. The experience of the Gulf War shows that although the "Patriot" II missile has a certain anti-missile capability, it is very unsatisfactory, and the success rate of interception is less than 20%. As a result, the Japan Air Self-Defense Forces allocated funds to purchase an improved Patriot III (pac-3) missile system from the United States.
At present, a total of 24 Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems have been deployed in 15 bases throughout Japan, from Okinawa to Hokkaido. The Patriot pac-3 missile system was also deployed in four key areas near Tokyo, including the Japanese Self-Defense Force's Camp Oshino in Chiba Prefecture and the Irima Base in Saitama Prefecture.
By the way, the cover of this issue is the Goddess of Defense (防人たちの Goddess) is a kaori incense with a pair of cute front teeth that the Japanese cannot resist, and was once known as the three Japanese cute girls along with Hashimoto Kana and Oba Mina. Being able to appear in Mamor magazine is also an affirmation of his own popularity. According to statistics, all the women involved in the cover shoot are popular photo stars or voice actors in Japan.
At present, on the cover, there are well-known photo girls Sugihara Apricot, Morishita Yuri, Katayama Momi, etc., so far there are more than 120 women on the list, these women who are very revealingly dressed at work on weekdays, in order to show patriotism, rarely wear complete clothes.