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...
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...
Under the guise of acting as a law enforcement agency, the China Coast Guard may attempt to take over Japan’s Senkaku Islands, other islands in the...
Okinawa officials, by shutting out JSDF members from Coming of Age and other official ceremonies, show disdain for the Constitution, individual rights, and security of the...
Above: UK Future Combat Air System © BAE Systems The U.K. has been a pioneer in air power for more than 100 years. We have...
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s choice of Nobuo Kishi as defense minister has belied expectations that he would be more accommodating to China than was his predecessor...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on August 28 that he would depart as prime minister earlier than expected for health reasons. It was a...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated a decoupling movement, as states try to disentangle their supply chains and political commitments from an increasingly...
It was March 24, 1999, at 12:50 AM. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force-guided missile-destroyer Myoko was in pursuit of an unidentified vessel off the Noto...
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada resigned on July 28 to take responsibility for an issue involving the daily operations log of the United Nations Peace Keeping Operation...