Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi plan to visit Vietnam, Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in May, with the aim of promoting Japan's arms exports. This move to lift restrictions on the export of lethal weapons, with top government officials personally stepping in to market them, marks a key step by the country’s right-wing conservative forces to break free from the constraints of the postwar system. It will inevitably fuel, in a systematic way, the resurgence of militarist thinking in the country.

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