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1 Sep 2014
This brief discusses the political consequences of Japan's decision in July 2014 to reinterpret the article of its constitution which prevents the country from engaging in collective self-defense. The author argues that this move, along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s historical revisionism regarding Japanese behavior during World War II, is poisoning Japan's relations with China and South Korea and leaving it more regionally isolated.
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Author | T J Pempel |
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. |