Japan scraps long-standing ban on lethal arms exports

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Japan rolled back restrictions today on its sale of weapons abroad, reinterpreting its pacifist post-World War II constitution. Yuki Tatsumi, senior director at the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security tells The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler that the timing of the announcement reaches back to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is motivated in part by the security threats Japan faces from China.