RE: Donald Trump has been officially declared a loser.
August 7, 2016 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 7, 2016 at 12:27 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 7, 2016 at 7:38 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: The exact analogue all applies to Japan.
(August 7, 2016 at 7:55 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: So don't give me the crap about the second not being additional evidence for the legitimacy of the concerns raised by the first, or was not likely done specifically to reinforce the domestic political impact of the first.
The Japanese have been reusing the names of WWII-era ships since 1956, with the Yukikaze. Haruna and Hiei were DDHs commissioned in the 70s, Kongo-class DDs came in service in the 90s.
Given the 50-year policy of reusing these names, I'm highly skeptical that the change in their submarine-naming convention is evidence of anything other than, well, a change in their naming convention.
