If the American model companies had invested heavily in promotion like the Japanese over the last 60 years we might have seen Britney Spears pitching a model of the USS New Mexico. Clearly, the “girls in weapons” shtick is a winner. The price is sexualization to an absurd degree. I have seen western males on forums who are mad about the near-kiddie porn comics, and are not shy about saying so. I have to wonder if this was a cunning way to neutralize the Japanese people’s antipathy for the military? The way things are going in the Pacific China may present its tab for WWII, and a nation of pacifists will be doomed. Most likely, the home islands would not survive a Chinese declaration of war by more than four minutes. No wonder the Japanese are crazed.