] or may be it might have something to do with Japan being an island?
AFAIK, the last time Japan felt a real threat of an amphibious assault was just after the FSU MiG-25 landed at Hakodate AP, Hokkaidou, which proved the vulnerabilities of the JASDF F-4s and radar sites. While the Hokkaidou prefectural police (not the SDF) investigated the MiG-25, JASDF fighters with live missiles flew CAP around Hokkaidou, because Japan didn’t know whether the FSU would send bombers to attack the MiG-25, or insert commandoes to attack the MiG-25?
Belenko did it once, and his comrades could do it again. 8D
When the MiG-25 was disassembled and transported to Hyakuri AB, Ibaraki Prefecture, fighters with live missiles again escorted the transport plane. BTW, when I was playing Falcon 3.0 and its add-ons for about two years, real time; in the Hokkaidou theatre, I didn’t try very hard to win, although I usually disabled the Admiral Kuznetsov and the static SAM sites, probably without breaking the ROEs, on the first day of the campaign.
Besides, Japan controls/monitors the north and south entrances of the Sea of Japan. Hokkaidou and the Tsugaru Channel to the north, and Kyuushuu and Okinawa to the south.
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