With each missile launch by North Korea that Beijing and Moscow refuse to condemn, the authority of the UN Security Council is undermined.
Japan should cooperate with NATO to deter both tyrannical China and Russia. Secretary-General Stoltenberg's visit to Tokyo confirmed that commitment.
Unless Japan stands by the security documents, which could involve the use of civilian airports and seaports, the US might lose confidence in Japan as an...
Russia's illegal occupation of Japan's Northern Territories should not be treated as merely a matter between two countries.
The National Diet should not confine the discussion to sources of funding for expanded defense outlays, but include how to elevate Japan's deterrence power.
To avert what could be the biggest postwar crisis for Japan's security environment, the country needs a robust security strategy, including collective defense.
The Ukraine war and double threat from China and North Korea in Japan's backyard have pushed Tokyo to update national security plans and step up India...
While there was romanticism and selective memory in the Hideaki Kase view of 1930s-1940s history, there were also solid chunks of reality not told by the...
The Chinese military seeks to build its first naval base on the Atlantic coast. China will gain a major foothold in the Atlantic Ocean if the...
The premise of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has collapsed. Threatened by North Korea and others, Japan needs a new approach to nuclear deterrence.
Taking advantage of the Islands’ poverty, China is gradually upping the ante in the maritime realm in and around Australia and New Zealand’s strategic backyard.
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a replay of Stalin’s crimes. Seventy-seven years ago, Soviet troops, like robbers taking advantage of a fire, violently took Japan’s northern...
