OPINION: Japan needs to consider offensive potential entailed in "active defense"

When she announced a snap general election at a press conference on Jan. 19, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi cited proactive fiscal spending, a drastic strengthening of security policy, and the development of intelligence capabilities as among her priorities, issues which have proved divisive among the public.Constitutional revision, a long-standing goal of her Liberal Democratic Party, was included in its platform for the Feb. 8 election, which the party won by a landslide, securing 316 of the 465 seats in the House of Representatives.In speeches toward the end of campaigning, Takaichi calle…READ FULL ARTICLE