The Rise of an armed Japan: Have we ever learned from history?
A Pentagon advisor and national defense expert says the
recent revelation that North Korea was responsible for the sinking of a
South Korean warship has compelled Japan to rethink its national
security policy.
Tensions
over North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship are serious enough
to have prompted Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to break a
campaign promise. He had pledged to close the U.S. Marine base in
Okinawa, but he now says he has decided to keep Marine Corps Air Station
located on the strategically important island, which is close to Taiwan
and the Chinese mainland and not far from the Korean peninsula.
The island hosts more than half the 47,000 American troops in Japan
under a mutual security pact. Read More>>>>>>>
