Japan wrestles with wartime legacy as it starts selling weapons

By Anna Fifield January 10 at 12:18 PM

TOKYO — Seventy years after the end of World War II, talk about any kind of military expansion remains highly sensitive here in Japan.

Just consider the position of Akifumi Arai, president of the Tamagawa Trading Company, a relatively small Nagano-based business that supplies sensors and gyroscopes used to guide torpedoes and missiles for Japan’s self-defense forces.
Japan Wrestles With Wartime Legacy as It Starts Selling Weapons by Thavam Ratna