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The Ledger

Japan Chose Its Lesson

Japan has scrapped its postwar ban on arms exports. Framed as a response to North Korean missiles and Chinese naval expansion, the decision is also a generational shift in Japanese strategic culture — from the pacifism written into the constitution to the realism written by events.