It’s time for the United States, Japan, and other security allies in the Indo-Pacific to consider the growing capabilities — and global reach — of China’s...
Japanese voters on October 31 let the ruling LDP retain the majority, and give a four-fold increase in seats to one small party that favors more...
The new prime minister must ensure that Japan’s national security interests will not be compromised on account of competing political ideologies and camps within the ruling...
If Pyongyang’s report that its missile traveled 1,500 km to reach its target, then most of Japan is now within North Korea’s striking range.
In the past 20 years when the United States was preoccupied by its war on terror after the 9/11 attacks, China’s encroachment into the South China...
In the complex environment of external security challenges and domestic emergencies alike, Article 9 of the Constitution impedes Japan’s self-defense and needs to change.
PM Yoshihide Suga details how the 74-year-old Occupation era constitution impedes the country’s response to modern problems, including the COVID-19 emergency, and how he plans to...
Taiwan should be at the top of the list as a Chinese military takeover is much closer to us than most think.
U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense have chosen Tokyo as the first destination on their trip to Asia, giving Japan’s ministers a valuable chance to confer...
Japan’s ruling elite — including some in the media — sentenced disaster victims to death years earlier by refusing to allow the Japan Self-Defense Force to...
Japan's main benchmark share index has reached its highest level in more than three decades. Investors are expecting Japan to ride the wave of post-covid recovery,...
As the only nation to have suffered under the impact of the use of nuclear weapons, Japan’s role in the United Nations has been pivotal in...
