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Japan spent most of the last eighty years as the textbook case of a pacifist state. A constitution that renounces war, a one percent cap on defence spending, a ban on selling weapons abroad. That picture is now changing fast. Tokyo has built counterstrike missiles, started exporting lethal equipment, and set out to double its defence budget. Join Arindam Goswami and Vanshika Saraf in this episode of All Things Policy as we talk about what has changed, what hasn't, and why a country can rearm without ever rewriting the rule that says it can't.
Vanshika has just written a paper tracing exactly how this happened and how far it really goes. You can read her paper here: https://takshashila.org.in/content/publications/20260608-journey-of-japans-defence.html
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
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Japan spent most of the last eighty years as the textbook case of a pacifist state. A constitution that renounces war, a one percent cap on defence spending, a ban on selling weapons abroad. That picture is now changing fast. Tokyo has built counterstrike missiles, started exporting lethal equipment, and set out to double its defence budget. Join Arindam Goswami and Vanshika Saraf in this episode of All Things Policy as we talk about what has changed, what hasn't, and why a country can rearm without ever rewriting the rule that says it can't.
Vanshika has just written a paper tracing exactly how this happened and how far it really goes. You can read her paper here: https://takshashila.org.in/content/publications/20260608-journey-of-japans-defence.html
All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areas
Check out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in

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