Japan has designated 14 airports and 26 seaports for use by its military and coast guard during a contingency.

Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces significant foreign policy challenges just days after taking office.

Takaichi, a hardline conservative who was approved by parliament as Japan's first female prime minister last week, is a regular visitor to Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, which honours Japan's war dead, including some executed soldiers accused of war crimes in China.

Japan plays a key role in containing China under the U.S. island chain strategy, which conceives three north-south defensive lines projecting military power to deter potential Chinese aggression by leveraging U.S. and allied territories across the western Pacific.

The Chinese government says bilateral relations and security cooperation between the United States and Japan should contribute to regional peace and stability, not the opposite.

Sanae Takaichi, Japan's newly elected first female prime minister, is an unabashedly conservative icon of Japanese politics. Her election is set to change East Asia.

Beijing has accused the U.S. of engaging in "group politics and bloc confrontation" that threatens regional peace and stability.

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