Tokyo’s Defense Planning Undermined By Inexperience

Credit: Jim Haseltine/High-G Productions
With the stage-managed resignation of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Japan’s Democratic Party (DPJ) has maneuvered itself into—and, perhaps out of—a defense funding and planning quandary. Hatoyama is the latest in a series of prime ministers to step down after less than a year in office. “Someone...

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