China’s psychological warfare against Japan and its allies is intensifying as it flexes its might with flotillas of warships in Japan’s Miyako Strait in April, two...
A new report from a major United States think tank warns that China has achieved clear naval superiority in many categories of combat capability...
As feared earlier, Japan’s territorial negotiations with Russia have run into rough waters. In November 2018, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President...
China's coercive posturing for a short, sharp war with Japan focuses on surrounding the Senkakus with layers of Chinese power.
(First of Two Parts) On September 14, 2012, China dispatched six maritime surveillance cutters to the territorial waters of the Senkaku Islands for the...
In this valentine to Japanese-American maritime relations, author Agawa Naoyuki traces the process by which bitter enemies during World War II developed into friends....
Later this week, I will have the honor of attending the memorial ceremony of the Battle of Okinawa, which took place 74 years ago. Organized...
With Narendra Modi having taken over the saddle of the prime minister for a second term, the eyes of the world are back on...
North Korea was a hot topic in the talks Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held with United States President Donald Trump at the White House...
Japan can buy all the F35’s and Aegis Ashore missile defense systems it wants. It can even cobble together an “aircraft carrier” or two. And...
Randall Shriver, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, recently spoke to Yoshinari Kurose, Washington Bureau chief of...
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...