Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and US Navy (USN) have started the annual bilateral maritime field training on November 16. It will be conducted until Nov....
In the sense that no war has occurred amongst major military powers from the time of the Cold War, the last 70-plus years arguably was a period...
Abducted and missing people's photo list “There is absolutely no sense of urgency. The Parliament isn’t even discussing how to rescue victims.” In the...
On September 11, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addressed the 51st Self-Defense Forces High Ranking Leaders Assembly. He advised Minister of Defense Itsunori Onodera to re-evaluate...
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to dissolve the lower house of the Japanese parliament a few days after the beginning of the extraordinary session...
On September 3, North Korea conducted what they called a “hydrogen bomb test.” As with the missile test that flew past Hokkaido on August 29,...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is also president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), announced plans to submit the Diet a draft new Constitution by...
This article—the last in a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017 issue of Seiron Magazine. Part 1: Comfort...
The voice of journalism in Okinawa has long been stifled by the stridently anti-military Okinawa Times and Ryukyu Shimpo. The only two local newspapers...
On May 3, as Japan celebrated Constitution Day or Kenpō Kinenbi, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outlined his plans to revise its post-war pacifist Constitution, which...
James E. Auer (Emeritus Professor of Vanderbilt University) (Part 7 of 7) I started this series as an attempt to debunk seven myths about Japan’s...