The Japanese government has approved a new five year defense plan calling for a five percent increase in military spending, including new drones and amphibious assault ships. Despite its Constitutional prohibition on maintaining " land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential," Prime Minister Abe has been pursuing a more muscular foreign policy as well as defense posture. Japan already has the world's fifth largest defense budget.
I have no problem with this buildup or the erosion of strict reading of article 9.
What bothers me, however, is Abe's description of this as "proactive pacifism."
Try again.
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