CoCoMoo over 8 years ago Japan's "next generation" fighter craft; replacing all those old F-4s. They ordered around 40 of them from Lockheed, and plan on eventually building parts of them domestically with US approval.http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japan-to-pick-lockheeds-f-35-as-new-stealth-fighter/2011/12/13/gIQAbuYUrO_story.html