Japan needs 'hulls in the water' to defend Red Sea: Armitage report

As U.S. turns inward, Tokyo needs to carry the alliance, bilateral group says

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Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage speaks at a press conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on April 4. (Photo by Ken Moriyasu)

KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent

WASHINGTON -- The Western world is looking to Tokyo to uphold the free and open international order in ways that it has never before, a bipartisan group of Japan analysts in Washington said in a report released Thursday.

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