Politics & Security
How to Secure Japan? Put Premium on JSDF Personnel More Than Hardware
Japan can buy all the F35’s and Aegis Ashore missile defense systems it wants. It can even cobble together […]
Politics & Security
EDITORIAL | South Korea Must Apologize for Locking Radar on Japan’s Self-Defense Force Aircraft
The South Korean government should waste no time in honestly admitting its error and offering an apology to Japan […]
Prime Minister Abe Shows Courageous Leadership in Pushing for Article 9 Amendment
With his reelection as Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) president for the third time on September 20 and […]
Special Reports
‘Treasures of Our Town’: Atsuma Pays Tribute to 36 Killed in Hokkaido Earthquake
By: The Sankei Shimbun “We regret profoundly that the lives of 36 of our townspeople have been lost. […]
Politics & Security
The British Have (Almost) Landed, and Japan Is Taking A Closer Look
By Grant Newsham When Japan takes a step forward defense-wise it often goes unnoticed. On […]
Special Reports
[PHOTOS] Hokkaido Earthquake: Rescue Operations Start Amid Threats of Aftershocks, Landslides
JAPAN Forward Death Toll Rose to 39 People Hokkaido Government announced on Sunday, September 9 […]
Shinzo Abe’s Constitutional Revision Bill Goes to the Diet in Autumn
By Takao Harakawa Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared his intention to introduce a Liberal Democratic […]
Politics & Security
Vietnam Expects Bigger Role for Japan in Asia’s Security
By Mizuki Okada A delegation from the Vietnamese People’s Army (VPA) visited Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) camp […]
Politics & Security
Japan, China Headed for Showdown ‘Down South’
Grant Newsham It seems like every few months an article appears in the Western press claiming […]
Politics & Security
China Excluded from RIMPAC Naval Exercises, While U.S. Forces Learn from Japan
Naohisa Hanzawa It was an unexpected, yet intriguing, move. At the last minute, the United States Department of […]
Politicians Need to Behave Like Gentlemen, Too!
The National Defense Academy of Japan, the institution which trains cadets to become future leaders of Japan’s Self-Defense […]
Let Japan’s Self-Defense Forces Take Some Risk
Some controversies could only be controversies in Japan. The “rediscovery” of supposedly lost logs of the Ground Self-Defense […]