Looking Hot in Uniform: Japan Votes for Its Sexiest Sailors
---Contest is a bid to boost recruitment to the nation's self-defense forces at a time of rising regional tensions---
TIME.com | 2013/oct/10
Amid aggressive territorial demands from China and growing debate over its pacifist constitution, Japan’s Maritime Self Defense Force knows just what it needs: a popularity contest.
The JMSDF has launched an online contest to pick the most popular male and female member of the naval service. Contestants include a sailor who boards suspected pirate ships off the coast of Somalia and the pilot of a patrol plane cruising the contested East China Sea.
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