Senior Paper on Self defense help?

My senior project is on self defense/tae kwon do. I am taking a self defense class and also an 8 week tae kwon do class. I want to right my research paper on how those classes benefit woman using statistics, explaining different types of tae kwon do and also saying that self defense is good for protection, health, and that it is not a product, meaning you need to form of weapon, only hands. but I am having a hard time finding valid statistics and information, where should I look and how should i write it? any ideas?

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Anyone Know Where I can Find Statistics For the Japanese Military After WW2?

I wrote my history thesis on the redrafting of the Japanese Constitution after WW2 and I will be presenting it to faculty and students next week. I would like to add some statistics at the end of my presentation showing the difference between the Japanese Self Defense Force circa 1947 (when the new constitution was drafted) and today. According to Globalfirepower.com, Japan has the 9th strongest military. Pretty intersting considering their constitution prevents them from having one. But thank you for any help you may be able to give.

The Japan "Self-Defense" Forces, or JSDF, occasionally referred to as JSF or SDF, are the unified military forces of Japan that were established after the end of the post-World War II US occupation of Japan. For most of the post-war period the JSDF was confined to the islands of Japan and not permitted to be deployed abroad. In recent years they have been engaged in international peacekeeping operations. Recent tensions, particularly with North Korea have reignited the debate over the status of the JSDF and its relation to Japanese society.
The JSDF numbered 239,430 in 2005 with 147,737 in the Ground Self-Defense Force, 44,327 in the Maritime Self-Defense Force, 45,517 in the Air Self-Defense Force, and 1,849 in the Joint Staff Office. Reserves numbered 57,899. The result has been a unique military system. All SDF personnel are technically civilians: those in uniform are classified as special civil servants and are subordinate to the ordinary civil servants who run the Ministry of Defense. There are no military secrets, military laws, or offenses committed by military personnel; whether on-base or off-base, on-duty or off-duty, of a military or non-military nature, are all adjudicated under normal procedures by civil courts in appropriate jurisdictions.
Japan's Basic Policy for National Defense stipulates the following policies-
1.Maintaining an exclusive defense-oriented policy.
2.To avoid becoming a major military power that might pose a threat to the world.
3.Refraining from the development of nuclear weapons, and to refuse to allow nuclear weapons inside Japanese territory.
4.Ensuring civilian control of the military.
5.Maintaining security arrangements with the United States.
6.Building up defensive capabilities within moderate limits.
possession of nuclear weapons is not explicitly forbidden in the constitution,
In theory, Japan's rearmament is prohibited by Article 9 of the Japanese constitution which states: "The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes", but also declares, "land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained." In practice however, the Diet (or Parliament), which Article 41 of the Constitution defines as "the highest organ of the state power", established the Self-Defense Forces in 1954. Due to the constitutional debate concerning the Forces' status, any attempt at increasing the Forces' capabilities and budget tends to be controversial. Thus the JSDF has very limited capabilities to operate overseas, lacks long range offensive capabilities such as long-range surface-to-surface missiles, aerial refueling (as of 2004, marines, amphibious units, and large caches of ammunition. The Rules of Engagement are strictly defined by the Self-Defense Forces Act 1954.
After North Korea test fired a Taepodong-1 ballistic missile over Japanese airspace in August 1998, subsequent North Korean tests as well as other issues contributing to rising tensions between the two countries have led to increased interest in Japan for a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system. Japan is in the process of deploying a multi-tiered BMD system made up of upgraded Aegis vessels and Patriot PAC-3 missiles. Legislation that would allow authorities to authorize shooting down an incoming ballistic missile is also being considered. In December 2004, Japan and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding creating a general cooperation framework for joint development of a sea-based BMD system.
In November 2005, constitutional revisions were proposed which would create a cabinet level Defense Ministry while keeping the old clauses mandating official non-aggression. Under the proposed revisions, the JSDF would also be formally referred to as a military force for the first time since its establishment. The new wording proposed is "In order to secure peace and the independence of our country as well as the security of the state and the people, military forces for self-defense shall be maintained with the prime minister of the cabinet as the supreme commander." The amendment is gaining more and more public support in recent years. On June 8 2006, the Japanese cabinet endorsed a bill elevating the Defense Agency to Defense Ministry. This was passed by the Diet in December 2006.
A Japanese soldier with a night-vision deviceJapan has also deepened its security and military ties with Australia and its leaders are talking about the formation of a military pact in Asia similar to NATO.
See my stites to get all information, ships, planes, helicopters, mandates, ground units, special forces, artillary, tanks, armored vehicles, missile defence and missile systems, you name it. I got the works.
There is far to much on this web site, and other links as well. This should give you way more then you need for your project. I squeezed as much as I could but look at the site and other l

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