It seeks closer ties with democratic India and recently formalised a security alliance of sorts, only Japan's second, with Australia. 日本尋求與印度加強聯(lián)系，并在日美同盟之外單獨跟澳大利亞結盟。
Above all, since the DPJ took power, it has been unclear how its goal of partially balancing Japan's ties to America with closer ones to China would affect the American alliance. 問(wèn)題的核心還是，自民主黨執政以來(lái)，它通過(guò)密切與中國的關(guān)系來(lái)達到部分平衡日美關(guān)系的政策對日美同盟會(huì )帶來(lái)多大的影響始終沒(méi)有明確的說(shuō)法。
