Japan to rearm?

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" 'A unified Korea, if it turns more pro-China than pro-Japan, would be intolerable from Japan's perspective,' says Takashi Inoguchi, a professor of political science at the University of Tokyo. For now, the world is still not dangerous enough for Japan to crank up its military machine. But that could change?-and a nation's allergy toward combat could be cured overnight." Time, Asia, January 27, 2003 / Vol. 161 No. 3

Japan to rearm?

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"The numbers are low compared with China's, North Korea's or even Taiwan's, but Japan's troops are among the best equipped and trained. Its defense budget is the fourth highest on the planet."

I had no idea Japan's defense budget was this large. On balance, this is probably a good thing. Just as we can't count on the police being on our doorstep when we need them, Japan would be foolish to depend on a second party for her defense.

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Especially if it's us on the other side of the pacific.

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