Japan’s new security strategy “bold and nervy”: Report

Tokyo [Japan], December 22 (ANI): Japan’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), the first in nearly 10 years is, not only “bold and nervy but is full of determination to pre-empt enemy attacks by launching a counterstrike,” according to a report in The Hong Kong Post.

Japan unveiled the new NSS strategy on December 17 just days after the country came out with a USD 315 billion budget for its armed forces. The report also says that strategy means that Japan understands that “no move to counter threats from China will be successful unless it sheds its post-World War hesitancy and shreds its pacifist policy that has chained its armed forces for the past more than six decades”.

Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said: “The NSS sets the fundamental principle of national security which is to achieve the security of Japan as well as peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, and to contribute even more proactively in securing peace, stability, and prosperity of the international community as “Proactive Contributor to Peace” based on the principle of international cooperation”.