Japan-US Alliance Would Crumble if Tokyo Ignored Taiwan Crisis, PM Takaichi Says

PM Takaichi says Japan could join U.S. on Taiwan rescue operations

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has suggested Japan could join the United States in rescuing its nationals from Taiwan in a contingency, drawing anger from China and likely to worsen an ongoing row between the two countries.

Japan-U.S. Alliance Could Collapse If Japan Flees Amid Taiwan Crisis, Says Takaichi

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has warned that the Japan-U.S. alliance would collapse if Japan failed to act and fled during a Taiwan contingency.

Takaichi says U.S.-Japan alliance would collapse if Tokyo ignored Taiwan crisis

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the alliance between Tokyo and Washington would collapse if Japan failed to act in the event of an attack on the U.S.…

Japan–US Alliance ‘Would Collapse’ If Tokyo Turned a Blind Eye to Taiwan Crisis, PM Says

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Jan. 26 that if China and the United States were in conflict over Taiwan, Japan would work alongside its U.S. ally to protect Japanese and American citizens in Taiwan. “If the U.S. forces, acting jointly with us, were to come under attack, and we simply fled without doing anything, the Japan–U.S. Alliance would collapse,” Takaichi said on a TV Asahi program featuring major Japanese party leaders. “T…

Understanding Japan's Military Expansion - Armed Forces Press

...the 20th century's yesterday...you can care all you want...everybody does, yeah, that's okay Public Domain If you’ve been looking for a more substantial reason for the latest news coming from Japan, you’re thinking right. The last month or so since the new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, took office, you’re hearing a lot of superficial symptoms of a larger issue. Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was voted in by parliament as Japan’s fir…

Japan-U.S. alliance would crumble if Tokyo ignored Taiwan crisis, PM Takaichi says

Ties between Japan and China have sunk to the worst level in years after Sanae Takaichi said in November that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could ​bring about a Japanese military response