Despite of being a polemical issue, this can change the global strategy's game a little...
Major newspapers were divided over Japan's new defence guidelines which end its decades-old ban on military exports and deem China and North Korea as potential threats.
The mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun welcomed the new National Defense Program Outline adopted by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet on Friday.
"Historic changes in the security environment have brought about new developments in Japan's security strategy," the conservative newspaper said in an editorial on Saturday.
