A fight to defend Taiwan will be far more deadly than Ukraine. So what if Japan takes the lead by ending its own strategic ambiguity first?
Potential invaders would face a higher hurdle if Japan has its own military protecting the nation and its people, like other democracies throughout the world.
“The key is deterrence. I think you're standing on board a large piece of that deterrence, but also the training with other like-minded nations.”
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and US Ambassador Rahm Emanuel stood together to deliver a strong message to North Korea and China.
“Japan must work to defend itself, and must maintain the power needed to prevent war from breaking out in the first place” ー Former PM Shinzo...
The US State Department’s “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” recognizes the problem and its depth — a first step towards resolving it.
Polish Ambassador to Japan Paweł Milewski: “Russia is a terrorist state. Putin is a war criminal,’ explaining why on April 12.
Poland's ambassador to Japan Paweł Milewski says military assistance to Ukraine would show that “Japan feels responsible for global security and world peace.”
Sri Lanka, a nucleus of the Indian Ocean region and the free and open Indo-Pacific, faces unprecedented instability in the wake of Chinese financial entanglements.
Veterans who were repatriated after the war couldn't have imagined that their country would have become so peaceful and prosperous, or its Self-Defense Force so widely...
To make the aggressor hesitate to attack, "we need to possess striking power to attack an enemy at its military bases," and "to share the US...
In the Sankei Shimbun and Fuji News Network joint opinion poll in March, 62.8% were “against nuclear sharing” but believed “it should still be discussed.”