Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba in Tokyo, Oct. 25, 2011. DOD photo by Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jacob N. Bailey
For Better Or Worse, Japan To Ease Reins On Its Military -- Kirk Spitzer, Time
TOKYO – U.S. and Japanese officials began talks Thursday to expand the role of Japan’s armed forces and loosen decades-old restrictions on how and when troops can be used. Sounds ominous, but the changes likely will be modest, at least initially, and are long overdue. Unfortunately, they come at a very bad time.
The crisis over the Senkaku Islands is steadily worsening. Any loosening of the reins on Japan’s military is sure to be viewed with suspicion by China, which claims the islands and calls them Diaoyu.
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