Female soldiers of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force salute their chief, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi during the annual military parade and review at the Ground Self-Defense Force Asaka training site in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture. This annual event had special meaning this year in that it marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Japan Self-Defense Force. In addressing the troops, PM Koizumi said that Japan will make it&#8217;s Self-Defense Forces a more streamlined military better at combating terrorism and the proliferation weapons of mass destruction.