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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet on Dec. 16 approved three national security documents that lay out the reasoning behind Japan’s move away from an exclusively defensive posture and for doubling defense spending.
Citing looming threats from China and North Korea, Japan has doubled its military expenditure. Tokyo will now focus on raising its counter-strike capabilities, according to the new policy.
On Tuesday, the ninth national memorial ceremony for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre was held as a solemn reminder of the calamity caused by militarism in Japan to not just the Chinese people, but people in other Asian countries, as Japan's recent updates to its national security strategies, such as increasing military spending and referring to China as a
The Japanese government will vow in key security documents to be revised this month to acquire "counterstrike capability" but exclusively for defense purposes under the war-renouncing Constitution, a government source said on Dec. 9.