Japan’s new defense white paper only about ambition, lies

By Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily Japan’s Ministry of Defense recently released its 2026 defense white paper. As the first such white paper issued under the Sanae Takaichi administration, the 598-page document repeatedly hypes up so-called security threats in Japan’s neighborhood. What comes through between the lines is no longer the postwar principle of “exclusively defense-oriented […] The post…