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In response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s August 2022 visit to Taiwan, Chinese missile firings, with some landing in Japan’s claimed exclusive economic zone (EEZ), vividly confirmed for many Japanese the notion that “a Taiwan contingency is a Japan contingency.” Even before this latest flareup in tensions across the Taiwan Strait, Japanese officials and defense analysts were increasingly focused on how a military crisis over Taiwan could embroil Japan.
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