via Stars and Stripes on December 2, 2022
Japan says it’s ‘speeding up’ a review of possible defensive weapons purchases
By ALEX WILSON AND HANA KUSUMOTO
Japan is also concerned about China’s “greater power and growing assertiveness,” according to James Brown, an international affairs expert at Temple University’s Japan campus. “While once it was judged that the alliance with the United States was sufficient on its own, there is now the ...