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Yomigaeru Sora – Rescue Wings (Japanese: よみがえる空 - Rescue Wings-) is a Japanese anime television series animated by J.C.Staff which aired on TV Tokyo from January to March 2006. The main character is 2nd Lieutenant Uchida Kazuhiro, a helicopter pilot in a search and rescue wing of the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF).
The JSDF's self-defence system is known as Jieitaikakutōjutsu (meaning Japan Self-Defense Force Combatives or Self-Defense Forces martial arts.) The first system was adopted in 1959, based on the bayonet and knife techniques used during Imperial Army times with an added hand-to-hand combat curriculum based on Nippon Kempo and Tomiki-Ryu Aikido ...
Mao Onigawara Voiced by: Kimiko Koyama (Japanese), Sandy Fox (English) Mao is the girl with pink pigtails held by red bows, who defends Japan from the ground by using a plastic tank (the tank was officially named 'White Tiger,' but she refers to it as 'Mi-kun' because when she was little, she had a kitten she called Mi-kun, but it got lost in a river while she was playing near it one day.
In 1994, the film won the Mainichi Film Concours award in the category for Best Animated Film. [22] A sequence depicting an aerial interception of apparently rogue Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-16s (with a pair JSDF F-15s) was praised in a 2022 Task & Purpose article as "the most realistic portrayal of modern air combat ever made". [23]
Samurai Commando: Mission 1549, known in Japan as Sengoku Self-Defense Forces 1549 (戦国自衛隊1549, Sengoku Jieitai 1549), is a 2005 Japanese feature-length film and manga series focusing on the adventures of a modern-day Japan Ground Self-Defense Force element that accidentally travels through time to the Warring States period of Japanese history.
JDS Mirai (DDH-182) [1] is a fictional helicopter defense destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), created for the Japanese manga and anime series Zipang.The central point of the plot of the anime is that the modern warship Mirai is transported back sixty years through time to 1942 on the eve of the Battle of Midway.
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Gate [3] (Japanese: ゲート 自衛隊 彼の地にて、斯く戦えり, Hepburn: Gēto: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri, lit. Gate: Thus the Japanese Self-Defense Force Fought in Their Land), is a Japanese fantasy novel series written by Takumi Yanai and illustrated by Daisuke Izuka and Kurojishi.