As regional conflicts continue to escalate in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and East Asia, investments in military and security budgets around the world are growing....
March 2017 marks twenty years since the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea formed a group to represent their concerns. On the eve of...
The Sankei Shimbun has learned that earlier this week, a Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet and an American carrier strike force led by the nuclear-powered carrier USS...
North Korea has once again launched ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan. The country has not slowed its pace of missile development, regardless of how...
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...
This article originally appeared in the Sankei Shimbun morning edition, September 4, 2012. A suspected case of an abduction carried out by North Korea was...
This article originally appeared in the Sankei Shimbun morning edition, September 3, 2012. All ages and dates are counted from that date. At a Japan-North...
North Korea chose the moment of the U.S.-Japan summit meeting to launch intermediate-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, and soon after assassinated Kim Jong-nam,...
This article originally appeared in the Sankei Shimbun morning edition, September 2, 2012. All ages and dates are counted from that date. In 2004, North...
The Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea and the National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea held a...
Main image courtesy of Fuji TV On the evening of Sunday, February 19, the Fuji TV program “Mr. Sunday” broadcasted images captured on a security...
Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of Workers’ Party of Korea chairman and dictator Kim Jong-un, has been assassinated in an airport in Malaysia. Kim Jong-un has successively purged...