China’s increasing isolation and its more muscular stance on Taiwan and in the South China Sea have opened doors for Japan to be welcomed as a military power, rather than shunned. The headlines that once fretted about 'remilitiarization' or the 'hawkish' ruling party have been replaced with more level-headed analyses.

Reidy is an LDP shill looking for a lucrative gig after he leaves Bloomberg. He's classed as a "columnist" now, not a journalist.

Agree. Nothing this man says is of any value

It's educational to see how in lockstep the Western media is in pushing this latest American assault on China and how ready the U.S. lapdogs in the Japanese government are to reassert the SAMURAI SPIRIT! in Japanese foreign policy. One would think that being the only People in the world to have tasted the unimaginable immolation of nuclear war, the Japanese would be more hesitant in inviting an even more widespread, country wide in fact, scrubbing of Hellfire that will be the inevitable result of reanimated Japanese aggression, latent in the deep culture and the main characteristic of Japanese history for ~70 GENERATIONS of warlords and blood. It would not be inappropriate, if this continues, to say to the future people of Nihon "Requiescat In Pace" because there will be NO 'pace' in your time here onplanet.

That’s an illusion, a very big one. There isn’t an open door yet for countries like Japan, or also Germany, for being welcomed or encouraged to more than very basic and limited military activities. Of course, a lot people think it’s time now, after those many decades, and many can’t wait or want to enforce and accelerate. But no, it’s still not possible, whatever much one would wish for. Below an unoutspoken 100 years time, there’s too much resentment left everywhere, quickly coming onto surface with the slightest attempts for gaining back some military strength or capabilities. Payments are welcomed, actions are denied, that’s the short formula, at least continuing until the 2050’s

Remilitarization only serves to make China even stronger in a world already dominated by them.

The part "have opened doors for Japan to be welcomed as a military power..." would be much more correct as "have opened doors for the LDP to use this as an excuse to push for more military profits"

Seeing in the news how Japan can't seem to be able to handle a bit of snow, rather than remilitarizing they should perhaps invest in a fleet of snowplows.

However journalists view it, militarisation ends in war and large piles of bodies.

The headlines that once fretted about 'remilitiarization' or the 'hawkish' ruling party have been replaced with more level-headed analyses.

I mean, no need to put "remilitarization" or "hawkish" in quotes, those are indisputably accurate descriptions of the LDP's general tendencies.

Along with "revisionist," which wasn't mentioned but makes the prospect of a remilitarized Japan at minimum somewhat more concerning than, say, an inarguably contrite and history-conscious Germany with an army.