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Japan is removing its pacifist mask as it continues attempts to strengthen its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, Chinese experts said on Wednesday, following reports that Tokyo is likely to deploy a surface-to-air missile defense unit at Japan's closest self-defense force base to China's Taiwan region.
By inciting the "China threat" intentionally, Japan aims to overturn its postwar pacifist defense strategy and rearm its Self-Defense Force with one of the world's largest military budgets.
China’s military expansion and its challenges to the existing international order have had a significant effect on the defense policies of Japan and the U.S., not to mention Taiwan.
While Japan and the US have hailed the former’s new security strategy for
Three new security documents prepared by the Kishida administration mark a new era in Japan’s post-war security strategy.