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Japan has long been viewed as a passive member of the Global North. Its only apparent contribution was to lend an “Asian colour” to the predominantly Caucasian G7 forum. The colour of the G7, of course, has been changing thanks to the likes of Barack Obama and Rishi Sunak who have risen to the top of the political heap in the democratic societies of the North. But this column is not about the changing racial character of the G7 chancelleries. Its focus is on Japan’s impressive recent leadership in the world of strategic ideas. It is Tokyo, for example, that...
