Japan has role to play in bolstering Taiwan's defenses

Tokyo can help keep island's defenses well stocked and ready

Rena Sasaki

March 15, 2024 05:00 JST

Japan Self-Defense Forces soldiers walk past a Patriot air-defense missile system outside the Defense Ministry in Tokyo in 2017.

Rena Sasaki is a U.S.-Japan Next Generation Leaders' Initiative fellow with the Pacific Forum, a foreign policy research institute based in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.