The will, but not the way, to increase Japan’s defence budget

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Open this photo in gallery: The 7th Air Wing of Japan Air Self-Defence Force's F-2 fighters hold a joint military drill with the U.S. 35th Fighter Wing's F-16 fighters over Sea of Japan, in this handout picture taken by Japan Air Self-Defence Force and released by the Joint Staff Office of the Defence Ministry of Japan on April 13.HANDOUT/Reuters Takatoshi Ito, a former Japanese deputy vice-minister of finance, is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a senior professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. After Japan’s defeat in...