HOW TRUMP FORCED JAPAN TO TAKE SECURITY INTO ITS OWN HANDS
A decade or so from now, people may look back on 2019 as a turning point for Japan – the moment it finally came to terms with its own security in the 21st century. Two years of the Donald Trump administration in the United States have shaken the Japanese public, but after a bit of shock, they have accepted a new reality. This is a post-Iraq-war world and Japan, for the first time since the end of the second world war, is facing the challenge of providing for its own security.