Blackwater: Japan's Missile Defense Force« Thread Started on Oct 8, 2007, 12:57am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Blackwater: Japan's Missile Defense ForceBy Noah Shachtman October 07, 2007 | 2:57:54 PMCategoriesread at source> http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/b ... pa.htmlThe guns-for-hire at Blackwater don't just roam the streets of Baghdad and New Orleans. Turns out, they're in Japan, too -- protecting the country's controversial ballistic missile defense systems. In Shariki, a tiny village near the Sea of Japan, about 100 government contractors work withAN/TPY-2 radar, "which points high-powered radio waves westward toward mainland Asia to hunt for enemy missiles headed east toward America or its allies," according to Stars & Stripes.