Japan’s China-Aided Political Rise: How the U.S. Can Benefit

With Japan’s pride and nationalist impulse to play a bigger international role now rising, its domestic debate on national-security and constitutional reform is set to intensify. Although rising powers tend to be revisionist powers, a politically resurgent Japan, strikingly, is seeking to uphold the present Asian political and maritime order.

Brahma Chellaney, Professor, Center for Policy Research via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1WlD0Yc