Japan militarizing islands near Taiwan

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Japan is continuing to fortify islands in the East China Sea. A decade ago, the string of islands stretching from southwest Japan to the east coast of Taiwan was not significantly militarized, with the notable exception of Okinawa. But in the time since, the Japanese have grown more fearful of China’s military belligerence and have installed radar systems, air-defense systems, antiship missile units, ammunition depots and thousands of troops. “The Chinese military is building up, and they’re getting aircraft carriers, increasing the number of jet fighters, increasing the number of submarines,” the Journal quoted former Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono as saying. “We should have been going much faster, but we lagged behind.” Tensions between Japan and China are worsening, prompting these economic and military giants to amass remarkable firepower. Yet biblical prophecy shows that they will soon unite under Russian leadership and use that firepower in the most devastating war in human history.