Germany reaches for Japan to balance China-heavy Asia policy

But new left-leaning coalition has different worldviews from Japan's LDP

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, center, and members of his cabinet make their way to a news conference after signing a coalition agreement in Berlin on Dec. 7. © Reuters

SHOGO AKAGAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer

LONDON -- With Europe's attention focused on Russia, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's new ruling coalition led by the Social Democrats has not lost sight of more distant horizons: greater engagement with the Indo-Pacific.

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