Japanese Science Fiction in Translation

Japan has a long tradition of science fiction, alot of it produced in response to english language works being translated into japanese. And they've done a lot of development with artificial intelligence and robots,. Also with warfare and the ethics of warfare and survival and peace. There's quite abit japanese science fiction engaging with the question of a can a nation absolutely dedicated to peace, that won't use any military force, actually function politically in rivalry with others that are willing to use force?