It's High Time for Uncle Sam to Leave Asia

"By encouraging Japan to become a normal nation with normal defense responsibilities, Washington can shed some of its outdated Asian military commitments," writes Antiwar.com's Doug Bandow in Normalizing Relations With Japan. The same can be said for the country on the other side of the Sea of Japan East Sea: "Nearly 30,000 troops are in South Korea, even though Seoul perceives little threat from the North and vastly outranks its potential antagonist in most measures of national power."