Japanese citizens have historically derided hawkish politicians and defense firms as “merchants of death.” These constraints on defense production have taken their toll. Japan is almost entirely ...

Tokyo’s defense exports are becoming tools for building a new middle power security network across the Indo-Pacific.

Japan is undergoing its largest military expansion since the Second World War, marking a major shift in its defense policy after decades of limited military posture. With plans to significantly ...

Neither China nor Japan wants war. The danger is that each side increasingly believes the other is preparing for one.

The Takaichi government is pushing to revise Japan’s three security documents, which outline national security strategy, within the year. The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on the 28th that the revised ...

Demonstrators are opposed to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s efforts to build up military power and move the country away ...

Mr. Walker, president and C.E.O. of the U.S.-based Japan Society, wrote from Tokyo. Ever since Japan’s defeat in World War II, the country’s place in the world has been shaped by a deliberate policy ...

Japan’s decision to send combat troops to the Philippines for the first time since World War II and participate in a ...

Japan’s relaxation of its weapons-export rules opens a path for talks that could one day lead to Tokyo supplying military equipment to help Ukraine resist Russia’s invasion, Kyiv’s ambassador to Japan ...