Jieitai Ladies

[ultragaijin]

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/images/jieitai.jpg

http://www.fushou-miyajima.webis-ya.com/sakuhin/jieitai.html (above)

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~aah03740/top.htm

http://www3.osk.3web.ne.jp/~fukuplo/image/top.jpg

http://www.info-niigata.or.jp/~tplo/nyuutai.html

http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~splo/plo/miyoshi.html

http://www.bouei.com/hikari/ilove_t.html

http://www.jda.go.jp/j/events/parsley/

http://www.fujifilm.co.jp/sapporo/snowfes49/img/jieitai.jpg

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/images/sdf.gif

[Harvey]

Do you think that women have the same opprotunities as men in the Japanese jietai?

[ultragaijin]

Do you think women in the US military do?

In general, I really haven't seen much information about the Jieitai. People back in the US are surprised that Japan even has any kind of an army at all, but actually I think the Jieitai is very well-equipped with some of the most advanced weapons in the world. (And of course, as Mr. Ozawa says, they could cook up nukes overnight.)

[Harvey]

Nope. I don't think women in the American military 'really' have the same opportunities as men. I'm sure they are the same on paper, but, you know how things really work.

Sorry to get all stereotypical, but I wouldn't be surprised if the lady in the image you posted isn't actually in the jietai at all, and is just a model they picked up for the shot... Maybe. I dunno, call me a skeptic, but she's just too cute!

[ultragaijin]

Well, most of the rest of the other links seem to real (if you took a look at them). I'm not sure about the woman in purple in the last link, though. I think she might be "honorary Jieitai" for the day.

About the Jieitai Ladies book, if you look at this link:

http://www.fushou-miyajima.webis-ya.com/sakuhin/

It seems to show that this photographer has done a bunch of serious documentary-type photography, so the Jieitai ladies may actually be real.

[Anonymous]

Spent time in the US Military and spent a lot of time with the Self Defense Forces.
Women are relegated to jobs like telephone operators, medica, and secretarial positions. Even worked with an officer who only function was to serve tea to the other male officers even though she had been in the service twice as long as most of them. Not much different then the Japanese corporate world...

[ultragaijin]

Not really surprising, but thanks for adding some real experiences to our clueless speculation.

Are most people in the Jieitai career military, or do most sign up for a few years then become salarymen (or, uh, salarywomen)? Can they get scholarships and additional benefits, like in the US? Do they have a National Guard type part-time service too?

[ultragaijin]

A Yomiuri series from 1999, How Safe Is Japan?: SDF must defend nation with hands tied (http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/security/safe2-1.htm).

Time Asia overview of Japan's Military from last year, Japan's peacekeepers in Israel (http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/japan_view/military.html).

Here's an outdated Altantic article from 1989, Japan: Let Them Defend Themselves (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/89apr/defend.htm)

Here's what sounds like an interesting class, maybe some of the reading materials (or authors) will lead to interesting information:

The Military in Modern Japanese Culture (http://www.gaymilitary.ucsb.edu/TeachingResources/japan25_syl.htm)

[ultragaijin]

A recent story:

Japan sends out first women soldiers (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1921000/1921493.stm)

Seven Japanese women have made history by becoming the country's first female soldiers to be on an overseas mission.

[Anonymous]

So you`re telling me that the JIEITAI Ladies photobook is the only clean photobook in Japan? Nobody has a female soldier fetish? Unbelievable.
:wink:

[Taro Toporific]

Spent time in the US Military and spent a lot of time with the Self Defense Forces.
Women are relegated to jobs like telephone operators, medica, and secretarial positions. Not much different then the Japanese corporate world...

I've known a few Jietai girls back in the day when the Jietai HQ was in Roppongi. For them the Jietai was just an OL job, abet a shitty one with low pay but easy access to unmarried guys. The girls were party-animals-- "bubu" animals. :)

The wild thing about the Japanese attitude towards persons in the Jietai: they are considered the "lowest of low", "the dregs of the sewer". ?!?!

I was a bit shocked when I first heard this Japanese attitude, being that the military is an honorable profession to an American---no different than a cop or teacher.

A Japanese personal director at NEC once explained this attitude to me as ...
During the 1950s Japanese hated anything to do with the Jietai who were shamefull losers. In the 60s, 70s, and 80s all Japanese could fog a mirror could get higher paying, "real" job in Japan Inc (Japan's true military).

[American Oyaji]

I have seen some SERIOUS hotties.

There was this one chick, she had a better body than Halle Berry. Fuller hips, larger chest....unaugmented.

This chick was hotter than lava man.

But she dressed like a tomboy. She was trying to play DOWN her looks. She got a tan and tried to dress hip hop style which only made her hotter.

Saw her in the club one night and she was top dog in the club bar none.

[Taro Toporific]

I have seen some SERIOUS hotties.
There was this one chick...hotter than lava man.

HOT DAMN!That tomboy has just gotta be Kagami T., the interpreter for Jietai HQ.
She'z smokin' :!: