Albert del Rosario, the Philippine foreign minister, can feel his brain pulsate when he touches his head because of wounds he suffered during the liberation of Manila at the end of the second world war.
“We were caught in the crossfire between the Japanese and the liberating forces,” he recalls. “I was only five years old but it is still vivid . . . the family left my sister and myself because they thought we had died.”
In spite of this history, Mr del Rosario is one of the few officials in Asia urging Japan to rearm – to counter maritime moves by China that are of growing concern both to its neighbours and the US.
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