Artistic Forces/Rising Sun Self-Defense Force

"自衛隊が戦い、防御します！"

- The voice when the RSSDF is selected in the Campaign mode. The Rising Sun Self-Defense Force, otherwise referred to as the Self-Defense Force, is one of the factions of Artistic Forces.

Description
Based on the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, the Rising Sun Self-Defense Force is a defensively oriented and technologically advantaged faction that engages military operations with a factionally unique combination of Japanese modernization, tradition and technology, and emphasizes an arsenal of futuristic and modern Japanese military assets, including GEKKO XII laser weapons, fortifications, superb firepower, and even high-tech, highly versatile transforming units, such as the iconic Viper Zeros and Washi jet fighters. Also, their armored infantry division can be technologically equipped with one that is based on Japanese tradition. Their manpower is naturally not as much as the one of its rival factions, but to compensate for this, they developed advanced technologies, mechs, drones and robots to combat for them along with their soldiers, vehicles, aircraft and vessels.

As a result of forming their nation into a democracy under the title of the State of Japan after the Allied occupation and the formation of the Self-Defense Forces many years ago, the Rising Sun Self-Defense Force achievably provides defense and seeks to keep peace and prosperity within the Japanese borders, making it an influence of the modern Japanese society due to their peacekeeping operations. However, when the Isekai Machine took effect after experimenting it with Dr. Yoshihiro and his military comrades in the headquarters of Keizai Industries, the entities from the different world known as Animatopia have invaded Japan as well as many parts of the world, specifically a secret and mysterious faction known as the Kaijin Gundan, and that the RSSDF declared defense against their enemies, viewing them nothing more than "foreign invaders".

History
TBA

Strategy
Like most highly defensive factions, the Rising Sun Self-Defense Force is a defensively oriented and technologically advanced faction with a unique blend of Japanese modernization, tradition and even cutting-edge technology, bearing some of the most sophisticated equipment. While toe-to-toe with the USSDA, ESU, and TDF, the RSSDF has met much difficulty in the recent years of countering the Soviet Union and now the People's Republic of China (since 2010), increasing military cooperation with Australia, India, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States, and acquiring new or updated military equipment and hardware, and have become experts at defense, most notably tower defense.

Tactics
TBA

Technological level
The RSSDF had impressive tally of technological achievements.

Sub-factions
The RSSDF has only one sub-faction, which is an elite branch of the Super Sentai.

Super Sentai
The Super Sentai utilizes an elite task force of infantry and mecha.

Commanders

 * Emperor Retsuhito (列人): State Emperor of Japan
 * Prime Minister Shintaro Nishimura (西村真太郎): Prime Minister of Japan and commander-in-chief of the RSSDF
 * Shinjihiko Akari (灯真司彦): Japanese Minister of Defense
 * Field Marshal Tomoyasu Nishimura (寅泰西村): Supreme Commander of the RSSDF
 * General Geki Nakamura (中村激): RSSDF Technological Advancement Commander
 * Lieutenant General Yukiya Igarashi (五十嵐雪矢): RSSDF Defensive Operations Commander
 * Brigadier Kiyomaro Yamazaki (山崎清麿): RSSDF Mecha Commander
 * Admiral Kaiji Oguma (小熊凱司): RSSDF Maritime Commander
 * Air Chief Marshal Jiro Nakashima (中島二郎): RSSDF Air Commander
 * General Yuta Takumi (匠勇太): RSSDF Expedition Commander

Agents

 * Sergeant Major Kenzo Imada (今田健三): RSSDF Male Terrain Agent (hero unit)
 * Sergeant Izuko Iwatani (岩谷伊豆子): RSSDF Female Terrain Agent (hero unit)
 * Officer Cadet Norio Kawamoto (脇差規夫): RSSDF Mecha Agent (hero unit)
 * Lieutenant Shotaro Shikishima (敷島翔太郎): RSSDF Technological Agent (hero unit)
 * Second Lieutenant Tetsuo Kaneda (金田哲夫): RSSDF Expedition Agent (hero unit)
 * Tsuguhime (つぐひめ): Communications Officer (announcer)

List of Keiretsu and Military Contractors
Here are a list of companies directly responsible for manufacturing the RSSDF's arsenal:
 * Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
 * Mitsubishi Electric
 * Mitsubishi Fuso
 * Toyota
 * Kawasaki Heavy Industries
 * IHI Corporation
 * Japan Marine United
 * Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding
 * Nippon Electric Company
 * Japan Radio Company
 * Toshiba
 * Fujitsu
 * Oki Electric Industry
 * Koito Manufacturing
 * Howa
 * Chugoku Kayaku
 * Toray Industries
 * Idemitsu Kosan
 * Daicel
 * Asahi-Seiki Manufacturing
 * ShinMaywa
 * Japan Steel Works
 * Subaru Corporation
 * MinebeaMitsumi
 * Komatsu Limited
 * Yamaha Motor Company
 * Kayaba Industry
 * Rikigaku Robotics
 * Kisai Robotics
 * Tsurugi Robotics
 * Sera Ship Works
 * Morikawa Industries
 * Nishizawa Energy Corporation
 * Kyodai Heavy Industries
 * Tokuhara Bureau
 * Horikoshi Aeronautics
 * Tetsubasa Aerospace
 * Keizai Industries
 * NHM

Trivia

 * An inspiration of the Rising Sun Self-Defense Force is clearly based on the modern Japanese Self-Defense Forces, popular culture and historical, post-war periods. Its units and buildings are largely influenced by anime, manga, novels, video games, feudal Japan and Tokusatsu.
 * Most of the RSSDF units speak in a Japanese accent, with the transliterated lines using the katakana alphabet.
 * The RSSDF units and buildings have cultural references and inspirations to the following Tokusatsu and live-action titles:
 * Super Sentai
 * Ultraman
 * Kamen Rider
 * Godzilla
 * Shin Godzilla
 * G.I. Samurai
 * Samurai Commando: Mission 1549
 * Frankenstein Conquers the World
 * Chouseishin Gransazer
 * Additionally, each unit and building of the RSSDF has many references from the following anime, novel and manga titles:
 * Gate: Thus the Japanese Self-Defense Force Fought There
 * Gundam Series
 * Macross
 * Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan
 * The Library War
 * Raid on Tokyo/Tokyo Wars
 * The Irregular at Magic High School
 * Patlabor 2: The Movie
 * Innocent Venus
 * Saikano
 * Yomigaeru Sora – Rescue Wings
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Promare
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Future War 198X
 * Gasaraki
 * Akira
 * Arpeggio of Blue Steel
 * 801 T.T.S. Airbats
 * The futuristic technological level of the RSSDF alludes to Japanese post-war economic boom and the numerous high-tech products manufactured by the advanced Japanese industry.
 * The RSSDF's defense contractors and armament manufacturers are inspired by the concept of Keiretsu, a Japanese term literally means system, series, grouping of enterprises, or order of succession. This also refers to a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings by the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II and the abolishment of Zaibatsu, causing its holding companies, such as Nakajima Aircraft Company, to get eliminated from the rest of the Japanese economy.
 * The connections between the Rising Sun Self-Defense Force and the Empire of the Rising Sun are that they are both Japanese factions in 2 real-time strategy titles: Artistic Forces and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, respectively. Obviously, both also refer to the parody versions of mainland Japan, based on the real-life counterparts of this country (State of Japan and Imperial Japan (or officially the Empire of Japan), respectively).
 * The gameplay of the RSSDF is based on the Empire of the Rising Sun from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (including its Uprising expansion pack) and Terran from the StarCraft series.