Tokyo: Japan prepares for fundamental change in national security policy. The country is getting closer to acquiring a counter-attack capability to deter enemy attacks. The new policy includes decisions to improve defenses and double spending to protect itself from threats from China, North Korea and Russia.
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The new strategy marks a historic shift in Japan’s self-defense policy since World War II. Japan aims to achieve the capability to intercept and defeat an invasion of its country within 10 years. The new move is a reversal of the 1956 government policy.
The earlier policy was to accept the idea of attacking the enemy only as a constitutional last resort. But Japan says missile attacks once morest it have become a major threat and its current missile defense system is inadequate. North Korea has launched missiles more than 30 times this year alone.
China has also fired ballistic missiles near the southern Japanese islands. Japan therefore says that acquiring a counter-attack capability to defend once morest an imminent enemy attack is constitutional.
