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'Offensive Defence' Debate Accelerates

June 2009 | Political Risk Analysis

BMI View: Japan is likely to accelerate some of its military programmes following North Korea's increasingly aggressive moves of late. However, Japan's severe recession and shrinking population will act as a brake on its grander ambitions.

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