Global alarm over Japan’s rightward shift — What’s driving the rising vigilance?

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  Global alarm is rising over Japan's sharp right-war shift and the resurgence of militarist rhetoric.

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  A new CDTN survey finds respondents view Japanese Prime Minister Senai Takaiichi's recent remarks hinting at possible military intervention in Taiwan not as a sleep,

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  but part of a troubling trend echoing Japan's darkest historical chapters during the Second World War.

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  Majorities warn Tokyo's defense expansion,

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  relaxed arms export rules and references to the code-and-code survival-threatening situations send dangerous signals,

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  with 90 percent fearing a repeat of the militaristic mistake.

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  The survey also flagged growing concerns that Japan's right-wing forces could destabilize the region.

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