Former Japanese Self-Defense Force official Shigeharu Oku, 69, was temporarily detained and forbidden from leaving South Korea this week. The offense: without permission, he overlaid...
The protesters of US base in Okinawa This article—the 2nd of a 4-part series—has been updated from its original version in the March 2017...
James E. Auer (Emeritus Professor of Vanderbilt University) (Part 5 of 7) I started this series as an attempt to debunk seven myths about...
The front page of the Sankei Shimbun morning edition on April 26, 2013. The newspaper announces the draft of "National Constitution of Japan". The...
Japan’s post-war Constitution On Wednesday, May 3, Japan observes the 70th anniversary of the coming into force of Japan’s post-war Constitution. At the center of...
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson leads the Japan's Atago-class guided-missile destroyer JS Ashigara (L) followed by the Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare April 26, 2017 ...
Since the promulgation of the 1992 law on peacekeeping operations, the Japanese government—under both LDP and DPJ administrations—has consistently sought to stretch the definition of a...
RIMPAC is a U.S. Navy-organized series of biennial exercises with foreign navies in the Pacific area begun in 1971 as an economically efficient way to maximize...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has wasted no time in trying to ingratiate himself to President Donald Trump. He should think long and hard about continuing to...
Late on the evening of December 13, I received word from a highly reliable source that an MV-22 Osprey, later identified as belonging to the medium...