277 | Does America’s Most Important Asian Ally Want to Fight? - Tobias Harris on a pacifist Japan in the 21st century
The Realignment
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How Much Should Japan Spend on Defense?
Licke: The ukrane crisis did more, or seemingly has done more, to shift japanese public opinion on defense matters than years of agitation by people. There's still a pretty active debate going on right now about whether japan should acquire the capability and allow itself to strike back against targets in foreign countries. We might really be at a turning point where some decisions made that really enable japan to be active in its own defense," Licke says. "I'm sure it must be weird having written this book"
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