Japan urgently needs to plan for “gray zone” situations, where there’s no armed attack against Japan but Taiwan’s crisis spills over.
To feminists in Japan, the use of pretty girl characters in promotional materials is sexual exploitation. To creators, taking down their work is suppression of freedom...
From pandemic management to relations with its neighbors, Japan faces persistent challenges from the mistakes and unfinished business of the postwar Allied occupation.
Simply put, this aircraft saves lives, like the dramatic rescue of an F-16 pilot who went down 700 miles off the Japanese coast in cold January...
In a reversal of the pressure from Washington that ended the early 20th Century Anglo-Japan alliance, there is now a growing trilateral U.S.A.ーJapanーU.K. for closer and...
The sense of crisis should be fully conveyed to the Japanese people: If China’s territorial grab of Taiwan succeeds, then Okinawa is next.
The sharp rise in the number of joint training is a reaction to China’s increasingly assertive pressure on the Senkaku Islands.
For the first time, Prime Minister Suga expressed optimism for beating the progress of COVID-19, and achieving the concrete aim of “vaccinating 1 million people per...
Our estimate is, Japan needs at least $91 billion USD in extra spending to get its defense where it needs to be. By the way, China...
Japan has no means to counter a possible Chinese invasion. Its constitution, untouched for 74 years, prevents it from establishing land, sea, and air forces.
Drafted on the assumption of Western superiority, the postwar Japanese constitution is not an artifact of Japanese political will or self-determination, but a monument to what...
Concern is growing that China might use “gray zone” coercion in an attempt to take Taiwan. What responses are available in a Taiwan contengency, and if...