the next level:

"The Liberal Democratic Party, a center-right faction in Japanese politics, will hold a live, 12-hour marathon stream on the niconico service on Thursday, and one of the marathon's panels will discuss "the Gundam Development Project, as seriously considered by the Liberal Democratic Party."
Masaaki Taira and Hideki Niwa, two members of Japan's House of Representatives, will speak during the 8:00 p.m. panel with their guest, novelist Harutoshi Fukui. Fukui happens to be the writer of the Mobile Suit Gundam UC novels (pictured below right).
Taira reported last year that his party would consider adding the efforts to realize "piloted, two-legged walking humanoid robots" into the party's platform manifesto. Taira also posted an extended discussion about the feasibility of piloted walking robots on Twitter, using the anime and manga titles Gundam, Appleseed, and Patlabor (pictured left) as examples. Taira broached the topic after meeting with Katsuya Kanaoka, a professor of robotics from Kyoto University.



In 2008, SciencePortal.jp, a website run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), released a report estimating how much it would cost to build a 18-meter-tall (59-feet-tall), functioning "Morph-X" combat robot similar to those used in Gundam. The Japanese government funds about 90% of JST's budget, with the remaining coming from the agency's own operational income.
[News via AnimeNewsNetwork & My Game News Flash]
Politicians everywhere are crap—even the ones who are thinking about building a giant, working mecha. In an upcoming broadcast on Japanese video platform Nico Nico Live, members of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party are apparently going to discuss the idea of building a real life Gundam.
The Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for over fifty years after World War II, is not actually "liberal". Rather, the party is conservative. Well known party members, Tadamori Oshima and Bunmei Ibuki, are slated to discuss biped robots and now the LDP is "seriously considering the development of Gundam."
Back in 2008, it was estimated that a working (not just a full scale mock-up like above), one-to-one scale would cost US$725,000,000 for parts and materials. That figure doesn't include the cost of labor or the cost of insanity required to build such a machine.

These politicians probably do not mean they want to make a 60-foot tall, 43.7 metric ton Gundam replica (at least I hope they don't), but instead, large mecha contraptions that could be used by, presumably, the country's Self Defense Force. In an age of drone attacks, however, mecha don't exactly seem ideal on the battlefield....
Read full article @ Kotaku"

long story short.the japanese love gundam,the government is looking into making gundam like mechs for japanese defense.only matter of time before every country that can starts with some mechs.

bandai built this back in 09 just to commemorate how long gundam had been around(interesting side note is,the first time around gundam wasnt doing so hot and i think the model kits ended up saving the whole thing because it almost got cancelled).i think it was them or gainax that also built the life sized evangelion head:







chichi means the same thing in japanese as it does in spanish.tits.

The Japanese try harder then anyone else. If anyone can make this loopy idea work, it would either be a team of Japanese engineers or some blue collar redneck Tony Stark out in Arkansas.

Good! Then they can take some pressure of us watching out for China /N. Korea

Not likely Cleet.
They got their hands full with Fukushima as it isn't done laying the fuck on them yet. That small island country is going to have some problems for the next 140,000 years.

I would like to make it known that I am willing to host any hot Japanese Av starlets seeking shelter from the aftereffects.

Frigid women are called maguro or "tuna".

You're a true humanitarian. The world needs more Cleets.