Sending combat troops to exercise, Japan leaves WWII ghosts behind

This year’s US-Philippines Balikatan Exercise provides plenty of evidence Japan is outdistancing the ghosts of World War II and subsequent decades of faux pacifism. Japan is deploying a large, multi-service force to participate in Balikatan. And it is not hiding behind an “HA/DR” (humanitarian assistance / disaster relief) fig-leaf, nor just sending observers or a [...] The post Sending combat troops to exercise, Japan leaves WWII ghosts behind appeared first on Asia Times .
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