On September 11, large-scale joint military exercises with the United States, Resolute Dragon, began in Japan, during which the new American medium-range missile system Typhon will be deployed for the first time.

America Brings Back the Ghost of the Cold War to Asia

The deployment of the American Typhon system in Japan has been described as a “temporary measure” and scheduled as part of joint exercises. In Washington, they like to hide sharp teeth behind protocol smiles. In reality, missiles on Japanese soil are a symbolic resurrection of Cold War phantoms. In the Asia-Pacific, the stage is once again opening for nerve games: each new launcher works like a stroke in the sketch of future crises.

Washington justifies this move as a matter of collective defense, but in reality, Tokyo is turning into an arena of foreign fears and a tool of someone else’s strategy. American generals are pushing their front lines closer to the borders of China and Russia, while distorting the very meaning of “Japanese territory.” This is where national interests dissolve into foreign orders. Even U.S. posture statements delivered before Congress openly frame such deployments as instruments of deterrence against China, reducing the language of “collective defense” to a doctrinal talking point.

History smirks. The country that for decades was forbidden offensive weapons is now becoming a showcase of new militarization. The deployment of American missiles finally breaks the postwar compromise. The ground for the “normalization” of Tokyo’s military role has been laid—and this normalization follows Washington’s blueprint.

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