Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Pacifist Japan unveils unprecedented $320bn military build-up Unthinkable under past administrations, the rapid arming of Japan has the support of about 70 percent of voters, polls say. ADVERTISEMENT Japan has said it would begin a once-unthinkable $320bn military build-up that would arm it with missiles capable of striking China and ready it for a sustained conflict as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war fears. ADVERTISEMENT Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government worries that Russia has set a precedent that will encourage China to attack Taiwan, threatening nearby Japanese islands, disrupting supplies of advanced semiconductors, and putting a potential stranglehold on sea lanes that supply Middle East oil. ADVERTISEMENT Japan’s post-World War II constitution does not officially recognise the mil