The Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected Europe in many ways, not least of which has been the reluctance of a key nation such as Germany to begin rearming.
Such shifts are closely watched in Asia, which remembers that now-pacifist Japan was the other side of the same coin as Germany during World War II.
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