Flush with political capital, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi¡¯s election victory earlier this month has empowered her to push ahead with a number of security and defense goals that, just a decade ago, would have been all but unattainable.
From moving forward by several years updates to Japan¡¯s three key strategic documents to discussions on revising the country¡¯s three non-nuclear principles and even laying the groundwork for amending the pacifist Constitution, the prime minister has in her short stint in office set the stage for tackling both long- and short-term goals.
But Takaichi, who has said that she is up to the challenge of ¡°taking on policies that divide the nation,¡± will still have to tread lightly amid unpredictable elements both at home and abroad that could put a damper on realizing these goals.
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