Both Korea and Japan are countries that are in the position of ‘being in the pro-American camp and having to get along well with neighboring China’.
Japan has developed a diplomatic strategy that strives to maintain a smooth relationship with China while being more pro-American than Korea.
However, Prime Minister Takaichi was famous as a hard-line pro-American/pro-Westernist from the beginning, and he maintained his stance that we should take a hard line against neighboring countries China and Korea.
However, unlike her previous tendencies, she is taking a conciliatory stance toward Korea, and taking a hard-line stance toward China, as shown in her remarks when she was before prime minister.