The demand for Japanese power

Despite Japanese companies operating around the world, its defence manufacturers are new in market

When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits India next week, he does so amid a nuclear crisis in North East Asia that is itself wrapped in a wider, deeper crisis around the shifting balance of power in the Indo-Pacific region. North Korea’s recent nuclear and missile signalling has added a tangential urgency to Japan’s growing insecurities arising from China’s sprint to unseat the United States as the region’s hegemonic power. The advent of Xi Jinping’s presidency confirmed suspicions that China’s “peaceful rise” was a comforting myth. And the advent of Donald Trump has reinforced fears that arose under his predecessor’s