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19 Jul 2014

This commentary provides an overview of the change in Japan's attitude towards military cooperation since World War II, which culminated in the 2014 amendment of Article 9 of the country's constitution, allowing Tokyo to use military force to defend an ally when under armed attack.

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Author Jennifer Lind
Series East Asia Forum Publications
Publisher South Asian Bureau of Economic Research (SABER)
Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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