Tokyo’s expansion of defence exports is less a rupture with pacifism than the culmination of decades of incremental loosening On 27 February 1976, then Japanese prime minister Takeo Miki announced a ‘unified view’ that Japan would ban the export of defence equipment. On 21 April 2026, the government under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi approved the export of a wider range of... [5968 chars]
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