It is certainly timely. Japan's cabinet this week approved the country's first-ever national-security strategy. This comes just weeks after China declared a new air-defence information zone (adiz) in the East China Sea, covering the disputed islands that Japan calls the Senkakus and China the Diaoyus. This has heightened already acute tensions over the islands, and the new strategy amounts to a distinct hardening of Japan's defence posture.
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