Japan is arming for a long range fight, and China is worried

Tokyo is building a military and intelligence architecture very different from the one that defined its postwar era Released in early August, the Japanese Ministry of Defense's latest white paper signals that Tokyo, under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, is converting years of incremental modernization into a more integrated and far-reaching national-security architecture - one that is altering the
2026-08-13 19:23:16