The long duration of Japan’s pacifism in the face of increasing belligerence from China is not only an effect of near-sighted historical memory...
By Grant Newsham When Japan takes a step forward defense-wise it often goes unnoticed. On Friday, August 24, Britain’s Royal Marines...
Naohisa Hanzawa It was an unexpected, yet intriguing, move. At the last minute, the United States Department of Defense cancelled the invitation for the...
Some controversies could only be controversies in Japan. The “rediscovery” of supposedly lost logs of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) unit deployed to Iraq...