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Japan's doubling of its defence budget will make the world a more dangerous place – here's why

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par Ra Mason, Lecturer in International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, University of East Anglia

Japan is proposing to double its defence budget to around £86 billion, or 2% of its GDP. This move – like recent pledges by Germany to massively increase its military spending in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – brings the country full circle since it was militarily neutered following defeat in the second…

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