With his reelection as Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president for the third time on September 20 and his two-thirds ruling majority in both...
By Fumito Ishibashi Shinzo Abe secured a third three-year term of office in the latest leadership election of the ruling Liberal Democratic...
The Sankei Shimbun Shinzo Abe is set to lead the longest-ever stable government in the history of Japan’s constitutional administration. Mr....
By: The Sankei Shimbun “We regret profoundly that the lives of 36 of our townspeople have been lost. All of them were treasures of...
By Grant Newsham When Japan takes a step forward defense-wise it often goes unnoticed. On Friday, August 24, Britain’s Royal Marines...
By Takao Harakawa Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared his intention to introduce a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-drafted bill for revising Japan's...
By Mizuki Okada A delegation from the Vietnamese People’s Army (VPA) visited Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) camp and bases for a week in...
Grant Newsham It seems like every few months an article appears in the Western press claiming Japan-China relations are thawing. Read enough...
Naohisa Hanzawa It was an unexpected, yet intriguing, move. At the last minute, the United States Department of Defense cancelled the invitation for the...
Some controversies could only be controversies in Japan. The “rediscovery” of supposedly lost logs of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) unit deployed to Iraq...
PHOTO: Having a meal with Thai police co-workers (photo provided by Kunio Tojima) (Third of Five Parts) This is a continuation of Sankei...
Japan’s new Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) stood up on March 27, with a ceremony taking place April 7 to formally activate them. This is...