Japan s cabinet will unveil in the coming fiscal year the first stages of a plan to evacuate residents of remote islands in southern Okinawa Prefecture to other prefectures in case of an emergency in Taiwan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Wednesday.
As part of its ongoing military buildup, Japan is speeding up plans to acquire Tomahawk cruise missiles from the US, according to a local media report.
Despite Japan bolstering its military capabilities under the nation s new Defense Buildup Program, it appears to have zero appetite to engage in direct confrontation with China over Taiwan, Western media and think tanks say.