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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