As China threat looms, Japan’s Abe reverses 2010 cuts, expands military

As China threat looms, Japan’s Abe reverses 2010 cuts, expands military

Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com With tensions between China and Japan rising rapidly, Japan’s new cabinet under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to augment its armed forces known collectively as the Japan Self-Defense Forces by as many as 18,000 troops. This was a direct reversal to the previous cabinet’s 2010 defense guideline which proposed to […]