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...financial burden, and Washington has begun to make noises about Japan picking up more of the tab-U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer told a group of reporters last month "we would hope they would be able to spend more." But this is unlikely. Even as staunch a conservative as Hisahiko Okazaki, a former diplomat and an Abe foreign-policy adviser, says that Japan should focus on cementing the U.S. alliance, not on pursuing its own military destiny...
...reflected in their muted reaction. While Pyongyang, predictably, took Tokyo to task for "converting the Japanese islands into a 'war state,'" the Chinese Foreign Ministry merely expressed hope that the change would not derail Japan's "peaceful development." "It's significant that China didn't really criticize it," says Hisahiko Okazaki, a foreign-policy adviser to Abe. It probably doesn't hurt that Japan's defense budget, squeezed by government social programs and massive public debt, is still likely to hover around 1% of GDP, or about $41 billion this year. China's, meanwhile, is increasing at a double-digit...
...worldview the two countries have very different national values and are competing for resources and influence. Going back to the close relations of the 1980s is no longer realistic. "[Reinterpretation] would make it clear that the balance of power will be between the U.S.-Japan alliance and China," says Hisahiko Okazaki, an arch-conservative and former diplomat who has become a foreign-policy adviser to Abe. "China has to deal with this reality. We have to be prepared...
...Strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance. That's our China policy." HISAHIKO OKAZAKI, foreign-policy expert and ally of Shinzo Abe, the man likely to be Japan's next Prime Minister, suggesting that an Abe administration would take a tough line on China...
...this is regarded as welcome, if overdue, by the pro-Western governments in East Asia, as well as most of the neutral ones. Says Hisahiko Okazaki, a top strategist of Japan's Defense Agency: "As we see it, the Americans are coming back. There seems to have been a psychological change in American public opinion, largely in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...