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This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Bachelors Gordon Chang,

At Gordon G Chang, my colleague and co-host, and we go to Japan to speak of Defense News's

headline. New Japanese strategy to up-defense spending, counter-strike purchases.

Dave Lennard and Melburn, Japan is committed to acquiring long-range weapons and to continue

increasing its defense budget as part of its latest national security strategy, citing

regional threats as the driving force behind its decision. We welcome our colleague,

Lance Gattling, in Japan, a principle of nexial research in Tokyo. Lance, this is a surprise,

given the reluctance, the hesitation, the cultural inhibition that Japan has demonstrated

since the catastrophe of the end of the Second War. What has changed is the mood of the country

different now because of the Chinese, or is it just that we've got a new generation of

defense thinkers? Good evening to you. Good evening, John Gordon. The changes that we see

unfolding now have been in the process of developing enough of a consensus in Japan

to be implemented for decades now. The original Japanese post-war national defense strategy

was strictly defensive, but bear in mind at the time the only credible, possible enemy,

an opponent that might invade Japan was the Soviet Union, and they would be largely

limited to conventional bombers, by the way, they're still flying the giant bear bombers,

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