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Shinzo Abe sought to militarise Japan to defend democracy

23 July 2022

9:00 AM

23 July 2022

9:00 AM

Following a visit to the Mitsubishi and Kawasaki shipyards at Kobe in 2015, Shinzo Abe informed me at a meeting in Tokyo the next day that I had done something in Japan that he had not. ‘What is that, Prime Minister?’ I asked. ‘You have been on a Japanese submarine,’ he replied.

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