Japan's annual white paper on defense released this week concludes there is an "increasingly severe" security environment in the Asia-Pacific and proposes reorganizing ground forces and adding capabilities to the land-, air- and sea-components of the country's Self Defense Forces. The paper's findings reflect growing concerns in Tokyo about China's military buildup as well as a territorial dispute with Beijing over islands in the East China Sea, and worries about continuous North Korean sabre rattling. Under the new National Defense…
