Japan Unifies Military

The Japanese military has reformed its command structure to be more like the US DoD:

Japan placed its ground, air and sea forces under a new integrated chain of command Monday, hoping to improve efficiency in the face of threats from North Korea and terrorism. In a major change, the Self-Defense Force, which was set up in 1954 after a defeated Japan was forced to renounce war, abolished the separate commands for each service.
"Under the new system, the head of the three arms will directly serve the defense chief so that the chief can operate efficiently in a shorter time," said a spokesman for the Defense Agency.

The pacifist nation (at least since WW 2) is also considering a more agressive foreign policy:

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has proposed the first-ever revision of the US-imposed 1947 constitution that would state explicitly that Japan has a military, although the country would remain pacifist.