Japan is not rearming. It’s growing up
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OPINION
Japan is not rearming. It’s growing up
JONATHAN BERKSHIRE MILLER
SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL
PUBLISHED 36 MINUTES AGO
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Japanese Defence Minister Koizumi Shinjiro at the 23rd IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on May 31.
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Jonathan Berkshire Miller is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Late last month, at the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore, Chinese military officials called out Japan for embarking on “new militarism.” Japan’s Defence Minister Koizumi Shinjiro shot back at his coun…
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