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| | Asia Times Online :: Korea News - Proliferation, imperialism - and the 'China threat' |
 | | Imperial Japan on September 27, 1940, in Berlin is known as the Axis Alliance based on the concept of a Rome-Berlin Axis put forth by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1936. |
 | | The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, which began with a Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur, a Russian enclave on China's Liaodong Peninsula, was the result of Japanese and Russian competition to develop "spheres of influence" in East Asia in the age of imperialism, mainly at the expense of China. |
 | | A new draft of the Japanese constitution provides for the formation of a full-fledged "Defense Army" of 60,000 troops; that number could be increased to 375,000 in times of war repelling foreign aggression, not just on Japanese soil but wherever interests claimed by Japan are located, with the authority to participate in collective defense alliances. |
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