Background to a Changing Strategic Perspective  Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has just visited Washington, drawing attention to how Japan is remaking its national security policy. He’s winning applause from Washington and hearing anguish in Beijing. Here’s the background: Ever since the American occupation of Japan after World War II, that country’s national security has More

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