Commentary
Japan’s strategic awakening is no longer theoretical—it’s unfolding in real time.
In recent weeks, Tokyo confirmed plans to deploy advanced surface-to-air missile systems on Yonaguni Island, Japan’s westernmost inhabited territory and only about 70 miles from Taiwan. The deployment is part of a broader effort to strengthen defenses along Japan’s southwestern island chain, territory that sits directly along the fault line of the emerging Indo-Pacific balance of power.
Yet Japan’s security transformation did not begin with this deployment. The origins of today’s strategic shift reach back more than a century and a half. History is a window into the future….
Japan’s Strategic Awakening
