ECONOMIST  |  Asia

Is this a new age of warrior Japan?

2024-07-22  1355  困难

Such events reflect how much has changed in Japan, which has had a fraught relationship with military power since its defeat in the second world war. Through much of the post-war period Japan preferred to focus on economic development and leave security to America, its main ally. In recent decades China’s rise, North Korea’s acquisition of nuclear weapons and America’s unreliability changed that calculus; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 dispelled any remaining illusions that peace can be taken for granted. As Ishiyama Shuichi, an SDF veteran who visited the Ise, put it, “People no longer have heiwa bokeh,” a phrase meaning “the peace blur” (or, if used derisively, “peace senility”).

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