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Japan beginning arms exports and collaboration with the U.S., Britain and Australia for development of new weapons technologies in 2014-2015

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The Japanese people continue to support a policy of peaceful cooperation in Asia, and are wary of changing the principles underlying postwar peace in the region. The pacifist leaning New Komeito Party in the Abe coalition government supports restrictions on the reinterpretation. Abe may have lost some political goodwill on the issue which he needs for the reforms in agriculture and other areas of the economy for launching the Third Arrow. Facing skepticism prime minister Abe says he will take the time for a "thorough debate." In contrast to Japanese public opinion the Obama administration supported the moveas a way to counter China's assertive stance on territorial issues in the region. China's assertive stance followed a weak policy response from the Obama administration to Russian president Putin's intervention in the Middle East, including the Assad government in Syria's use of chemical weapons. Years of indecisive response and weakness may have led China to a miscalculation of the U.S. role in the Pacific, leading to its assertive stance on territorial issues and the Abe administration's response. In this situation the Japanese people have shown more sagacity about the wisdom of continuing with the principles which have supported postwar peace since 1945, than the Obama administration's waffling and indecision leading to support of an abrupt change in the basis of postwar peaceful cooperation in Asia through a hasty reinterpretation Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. The U.S. has the same capabilities of maintaining peace in the Pacific region, as it has in the past, and in no way diminished in its will and purpose today, wthout a need for reinterpretation of the Constitution.

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