Japan vows bigger security role in Asia-Pacific to tackle threats

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to boost his country’s diplomatic and security role in the Asia-Pacific to tackle what he described as growing threats in the region amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Kishida said Japan will consider acquiring a preemptive strike capability in response to an increasingly assertive China, North Korea and now Russia – a controversial plan that critics have said will violate Japan’s war-renouncing constitution.

“Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow,” Kishida said on Friday in a keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, an Asian security forum.

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