Japan's new Defense Minister faces daunting challenges

From China's growing military assertiveness to North Korea's nuclear saber-rattling to North Korea's nuclear saber-rattling, new Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada will have his work cut out for him as he confronts a number of looming challenges.

Hamada, 66, is the most pressing issue that he will have to deal with is shepherding some of the biggest changes in Japanese defense policy in nearly a decade. The defense chief will be leading revisions to the National Security Strategy and other key security documents before the year s end that will lay the foundation for the country s defense policy for potentially years to come.

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