Japan hopes this new robotic army could be part of the answer to an ever-declining birthrate and shrinking workforce in a country famously wary of opening its shores to immigrants.

由于持续的低出生率以及国际知名的审慎接收移民政策，日本希望这支新的机器人大军能够部分解决随之而来的劳动力减少的状况。

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The business suit, a descendant of a European army officer's outfit, is now standard for men from Japan to South Africa to Peru - with the laggard or rebel once again being the Arab world.

西装源自于欧洲一位军事长官的全制服，现已成为日本、南非、秘鲁这些落后国家(或者仍然贴着阿拉伯世界的标签)的男人的标准行头。

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The Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps conducted experiments in the 1940s to see if the flying mammals could be used to start millions of fires across Japan.

陆军、海军和海军陆战队在20世纪40年代进行试验，看这些会飞的哺乳动物能否被用于在日本各地燃起数百万的炮火。

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This socialisation for war made it only natural for Hirohito to accept (some would say welcome) the undermining of Japanese diplomacy by the army and later the navy that set Japan on its fateful course to launching co-ordinated attacks in 1941: the airborne assault on the American fleet in Pearl Harbour and the ground landing on Kota Bharu in British Malaya.

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The second had a different result after the Soviet Union sent the Red Army into Manchuria to claim territorial spoils from a fatally crippled Imperial Japan at the conclusion of World War II.

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There is no question that, even after the incineration of its cities, Japan still had the capacity to inflict unacceptable losses upon an invading army.

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