Japan should be proud of its past. The truth is that when Japan did have a military, it used it for the noblest purpose of all...
Japan’s indecisiveness toward China’s aggressions has also led its neighbor countries to harden their stance against Japanese territory and interests.
These days, Hitoshi Nakama’s fishing boat is shadowed by a Chinese Coast Guard empowered by a new Chinese law that authorizes shooting at foreign vessels.
Residents of Okinawa must be trained as multipliers for the regular defense forces, responding during natural calamities and giving support when the security of the country.
China’s strategy is one of working towards annihilating the adversary with its flocks of fishing fleets, while keeping the Chinese Coast Guard nearby and PLA-Navy ships...
Even China’s official English language newspaper, The People’s Daily, recognized the Senkaku Islands as Japanese territory — until oil reserves were discovered in the 1970s.
If the project materializes, it would strengthen Indonesia’s ability to deter Chinese intimidation in the South China Sea, and reinforce Japan’s cooperation with ASEAN.
Xi Jinping’s China is driven not by traditional communist ideology but the unabashed urge to control more territory. And it appears willing to risk war to...
Listen in as the JAPAN Forward editorial team chats with Senior Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), researcher and commentator on Asia’s security...
The region and the world are watching as Xi Jinping and the CCP seek power to create new boundaries through military strength and rewrite history to...
Alarm is growing about the burgeoning threat posed by Chinese maritime incursions in Japanese waters near the Senkaku Islands and in other parts of the region....
COVID-19 dominated every facet of our news and daily lives from the end of January. Here we look at the international friction that clung to the...
