“The 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty laid the foundation of relations between Washington and Tokyo. […] The key to the treaty was the establishment of permanent US air, land, and sea bases in Japan. They remain, half a century later. Japan thus became a giant US aircraft carrier from which it dominates highly strategic North Asia. In exchange, Japanese industry was given open access to the US market, thus laying the base of Japan’s economic upsurge of the 1960’s. South Korea enjoyed a similar deal. This cozy arrangement is now being challenged by the rapid rise of China’s military and economic power.”

http://ericmargolis.com/2013/07/japan-must-face-up-to-china/

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