During her visit to the United States, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi presented a “generous package” of $73 billion in investment. This approach of using substantial investment as a “premium” to insure U.S.–Japan relations highlights the inequality within the alliance today, and has also sparked widespread opposition at home in Japan.

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