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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What's the Limitation of Self Defense Force in Japan?
Hayden: There's a sense that, at least from the beginning, i these the occupations, goals of of democracy and de militarization were imposed. But there were plenty of japanese who essentially indigenized those reforms, who accepted them as important. Hayden: By the time you get to the 19 nineties, a people like abe say it was ld pow nearer the enemy within the dpennage. And this is much aimed at an older generation of officials who had sort of accepted these institutions in this way.
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