To avert what could be the biggest postwar crisis for Japan's security environment, the country needs a robust security strategy, including collective defense.
In the new book "Can You Win Against China?" (Kimi Tachi, Chugoku Ni Katerunoka), four key national security figures sound an alarm about the China threat.
Predictions on when, and how bad the trouble is the harder part. But what happens in the next few years will determine what historians write about...
With significant public support, the National Security Strategy tackles defending Japan and reinforcing the Japan-US alliance against an aggressive China.
Sole use of Okinawa bases by the US military shows lack of integration with the SDF. That must change to defend against the threat of Chinese...
Absent a joint capability the Japan Self-Defense Force isn't even the sum of its parts. With it, the JSDF becomes far more capable of defending Japan.
The law only authorizes investigation of the ownership and use of properties around Self-Defense Forces HQs, US military bases, and the nation's borders.
North Korea's grave provocation and challenge to Japan, the United States, and the international community cannot be ignored.
Put simply, the United States needs a Japan Self-Defense Force that can fight a war, and that can fight a war alongside, and inter-linked with, US...
Inside and outside the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, thousands of people said a final goodbye to the consequential and longest serving prime minister of Japan.