Japan’s Takaichi Risks China’s Wrath With Offering to Yasukuni
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made an offering to a shrine seen by Japan’s neighbors as glorifying its wartime past, in a move that stops short of a visit but may still anger China and other neighboring nations.
Japan lifts lethal arms export ban
- Japan approves removing ban on lethal weapons exports NPR —
- Japan overhauls weapons export rules, opening up sale of lethal arms overseas Le Monde —
- Japan scraps a ban on lethal weapons exports in a change of its postwar pacifist policy MS Now —
- Japan scraps ban on lethal weapons exports in major shift of pacifist policy CNBC —
- Japan scraps arms export limits, opens to global market Reuters —