Japan pivots away from peace as fear of China grow

Japan's more aggressive defence policy will be highlighted when Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hosts the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations in his home town of Hiroshima in less than a month. There are few other places in the world that are a greater testimony to the tragedy of war. A peace park and a confronting museum built on the epicentre of the 1945 atomic bomb attack which killed 140,000 people will set the scene for the summit. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the leaders of Japan's other allied nations including South Korea have also been invited. Kishida…