目前也正和中国发生激烈领土冲突的菲律宾外长不顾本国曾在日本占领中所受的痛苦，要求日本重新武装以维持对华的军事平衡。
The foreign minister of the Philippines, which is also currently engaged in a heated territorial conflict with China, called on Japan to rearm itself to balance China militarily, notwithstanding his country’s bitter legacy of Japanese occupation.