Under current law, Japanese security forces are forbidden from firing their weapons unless clearly fired upon, which means that the country’s Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels can do little when targeted by Chinese naval radar. And revising the rules to allow Japan’s military to, say, destroy a North Korean missile before it reaches Japanese air space would increase the risk of conflict between Chinese and Japanese naval and air forces.
而在这些事件中，日本一直因其军事交战规则而保持克制。根据现行法律，日本保安部队除非遭到攻击，否则不能主动开火，这就意味着日本海军自卫队舰艇即便遭到中国海军火控雷达照射也只能束手无策。而一旦修改规则允许日本军方在朝鲜导弹到达领空之前将其击落的话，中日海空军间爆发冲突的风险必然随之增大。