yes army exist already even to acient time.to protect the people from other people who want to envade their country.they been trained highly to fly aircraf,ships,tanks that local police don't have.look "a country without army is a weak country" Cowboy...

@ Cowboy When Japanese lost to the US in WWII, Japan was restricted to have army. Japanese adopted it into their constitution law. Their safty is under the protection of US. Today, the Japanese army are trained under the name of special police force. This special force has no weapons. But, they are trained and equiped themself with the same capacity for combat as army. Should Japan to remove its law from constitution, it was a big issue in Japan and it was in the news. Japanese taking advantage of its law, they don't have to spend on millitary, they spend on commerical, making cars, electronics, transportations etc., the biggest market is US, it is the trade in exchange for the US millitary support. As a result, Japanese is nine years technologically advanced of US in commercial.

Please don't confused the word of army with police force. Japan is the only country in the world has no army. I support the Japanese Constitution Law remains.

@wozitoya ahh! o.k so it means that Japan still have army but it was only name special police force. Thanks cowboy..

@wozitoya Dont get me wrong i dont believed that Japan has no army even before. and what do you call those people envided our country who came from Japan? cowboy..