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Japan's domestic shifts drive remilitarisation amid rising China concerns

Japan is undergoing a significant remilitarization driven by domestic factors, despite lingering pacifist sentiments and constitutional constraints. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government is leveraging a long-term conservative political strategy that includes educational reforms and curated historical narratives to shift public opinion. This approach has resonated with a younger generation less burdened by wartime guilt and more concerned with contemporary anxieties like economic stagnation and regional security threats from China and North Korea. AI

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RANK_REASON This is an opinion piece analyzing the domestic political and social dynamics behind Japan's foreign policy shifts, rather than a direct announcement of a new policy or event.

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Japan's domestic shifts drive remilitarisation amid rising China concerns

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 · Wenran Jiang ·

    The domestic dynamics driving Japan’s remilitarisation

    Global attention is fixated on Japan’s strategic shift under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. From the strengthened US-Japan alliance to the tense stand-off with China, from advocating for constitutional reinterpretation to allowing weapons exports and deploying counterstrike capab…