Toshimitsu Motegi, 61, is considered a sharpest observer of the political world, and he can be frank with his views that Japan possesses strengths that...
“There’s a tendency to underestimate North Korea’s capabilities for political reasons,” Jenny Town, a leading researcher from John Hopkins University in Washington DC, said...
“We have nothing but apprehension since such a vehemently anti-Japanese president has won.” Those close to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lamented on the...
It must be difficult to be the president of South Korea. That is what I thought while watching the news of former South Korean President...
(Part 4 of 7) I started this series as an attempt to debunk seven myths about Japan’s national security policy. Living in a democracy, and in...
The Izumo, a Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force's helicopter carrier, sets sail from Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Monday, May 1, 2017 to escort a U.S. supply ship....
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 ...
Vice President Mike Pence aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) in Yokosuka, Japan April 19 (Part 1 of 7) Although the literacy and mathematical competence of the...
China has been aggressively pursuing territorial expansion in the South China Sea, building military bases and repeatedly entering Japan’s territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands (Ishigaki...
This week, in the wake of increasingly shrill North Korean threats, Vice President Mike Pence is in East Asia, rallying the US-South Korea-Japan alliance around the...
The first group of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force troops has arrived back in Aomori, northern city of Japan on Wednesday, April 19, after a five-year peacekeeping...
The first summit talks since the inauguration of the Trump administration will be held this week. As China exerts increasing influence from all possible sides--economically,...