The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), in its latest East Asian Strategic Report on the security environment surrounding Japan, found that the People’s Republic of...
March 29 marked the fourth year since the passage of a historic package that revised Japan’s national security law. Before the new national security...
China declared compliance with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (Chemical Weapons...
On March 3, the High Court gave me a perfect victory in a libel case brought against me by former Asahi Shimbun newspaper reporter Takashi...
China’s novel coronavirus epidemic could well become Xi Jinping’s greatest internal challenge. The epidemic’s economic and social ramifications are stretching beyond control and have...
The near-permanence of the state of flux and transformation which surrounds the Indo-Pacific region brings its own set of opportunities and challenges. For these,...
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Sunday, January 19, marked the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between Japan and the United States that...
North Korea held a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party (KWP) from December 28-31. Although some 300 full and candidate...
Japanese defense initiatives can seem like Rorschach tests — meaning very different things to different people. Take Tokyo’s recent announcement that it would buy...