Japan Is Rearming. Will It Build the Bomb? (w/ Ian Buruma)

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For more than half a century, the two main Axis powers of WWII lived under strict limits on their militaries. Now both are rearming fast — driven by the threat of Russia in Europe and China in the Pacific, and by growing doubts about whether the US under Trump can still be relied upon.

Germany is pouring money into defense and rebuilding its arms industry. Japan has created a new intelligence service, is expanding its Self-Defense Forces, and is debating whether to revise Article 9 of its pacifist constitution.

Historian and journalist Ian Buruma — author of Stay Alive: Berlin 1939–1945 — joins former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove and journalist Kate McCann to explain how wartime guilt shaped both countries' foreign and defense policy for generations, and why that influence is now fading fast.

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In this episode:

(00:00) Intro

(04:22) Sir Richard on ex-BND chief August Hanning

(08:47) How Germany and Japan responded to WWII

(13:11) Japan’s younger generation and Article 9

(22:11) Should Germany help fund Europe’s nuclear umbrella?