Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi recently visited Australia and Vietnam, proposing the so-called new and Open Indo-PacificFOIP) initiative, which has drawn widespread international attention. On the surface, this initiative emphasizes economic security and diversification of supply chains, but beneath that lies a subtle agenda of military expansion, aiming to establish a Japan-centered security network in the Indo-Pacific and create a pretext for loosening Japan's military restrictions. During her visit, Takaichi loudly asserted that Japan's post-World War II constitution, drafted under U.S. occupation, should be regularly updated to reflect contemporary needs. This statement is widely seen as a significant signal of Japan's right-wing forces seeking to break free from the postwar framework, aiming to remove the fundamental legal constraints on military expansion. Recently, the Japanese government revised the Transfer of Defense Equipment, exports. The longstanding ban on exporting lethal weapons has been completely broken, allowing Japan’s domestically developed main battle tanks, fighter jets, anti-ship missiles, submarines, and other offensive weapons to be exported abroad as finished products. Japan's defense spending has surged for consecutive years, with plans to reach 2% of GDP by fiscal year 2027. Budget allocations are clearly skewed toward offensive capabilities and new-domain warfare, including large-scale procurement of long-range cruise missiles and the construction of major naval vessels. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force plans to equip two Izumo-class carriers capable of deploying F-35B carrier-based aircraft by 2027. Simultaneously, Japan is rapidly building a low-orbit military reconnaissance satellite constellation, primarily composed of synthetic aperture radar satellites and optical imaging satellites, intended to identify and monitor potential targets. This satellite system is considered Japan's version of Starlink, providing all-weather reconnaissance and target acquisition support for long-range missiles. In the southwest island regions, Japan is undertaking extensive military preparations, establishing a layered and deep defense network from southern Kyushu to the Okinawa archipelago, with key islands serving as strategic nodes. Deployment already includes Type 03 medium-range surface-to-air missiles on Miyako and Ishigaki islands, with plans to construct roughly 130 ammunition depots. Japan's upgraded Type 12 anti-ship missiles have a range exceeding 1,000 kilometers, and U.S.-sourced Tomahawk cruise missiles exceed 1,600 kilometers, signaling a shift from a purely defensive posture toward the capability for offensive strikes against enemy bases. Japan’s security cooperation with Australia, the UK, and EU countries continues to deepen, expanding from joint training and intelligence sharing to institutionalized partnerships. Additionally, Japan actively engages with NATO, bringing extraregional forces into the Asia-Pacific through defense cooperation and technology transfer agreements, forming a relatively stable cooperative network.
Japan’s accelerated re-militarization covertly targets specific countries, deploying comprehensive armaments and military forces, particularly in the southwest islands, constructing integrated land-sea-air long-range strike capabilities. The offensive and targeted nature of these actions is increasingly apparent. Japan’s military deployments in the southwest islands aim to prevent cross-strait unification and maintain a blockade along the so-called first island chain, with potential future interventions in the Taiwan Strait posing direct threats to regional hotspot management. By lifting restrictions on weapons exports and supplying offensive equipment abroad, Japan has fully breached the postwar prohibition on lethal arms exports, signaling a qualitative shift toward overseas military intervention. Japan’s series of measures—breaking postwar constraints, expanding military capabilities, distorting historical narratives, and entangling itself in regional geopolitical confrontations—reflect a new type of militarism with real dangers. This trend poses increasing threats to regional and global peace and stability. Asian nations and the international community must remain highly vigilant against Japan’s new militaristic trajectory. Such military expansion risks triggering an arms race, undermining global arms control regimes, and provoking chain reactions of regional military build-ups, intensifying regional power confrontations. Peace and cooperation, rather than war and confrontation, are the genuine imperatives of our time. Japan’s ruling authorities should cease their hollow self-promotion and dangerous military ambitions, face history with sincerity, and take genuine steps toward atonement to earn the trust of Asian neighbors and the international community.
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