Biden to join fellow G7 leaders in Japan as China’s aggression pushes Tokyo past pacifism

Tokyo — President Biden was in Japan Thursday to join fellow G7 leaders in Hiroshima for a Friday summit that will see the world’s biggest economic powers grapple with global issues, including China’s huge military buildup in the Pacific. Japan, America’s biggest ally in the region, has already committed to doubling its national defense budget. That drew praise from the U.S. and marked a major departure from more than 75 years of foreign policy. Japan’s constitution was written in 1945 by American occupation authorities after WWII specifically to ensure the country never went to war again. Article 9 of that…