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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
Japan released on Friday a new, robust national security strategy and complementary defense planning documents. The strategy is Japan’s first in nearly 10 years and only its second ever. The strategy navigates the country’s response to significant changes in the regional and global security environment, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and reflect Japan’s growing sense of vulnerability vis-à-vis its immediate neighbors. USIP’s Mirna Galic looks at the new strategy and what it means for the region.
Three new security documents prepared by the Kishida administration mark a new era in Japan’s post-war security strategy.