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Japan‘s Rearmament: Reawakened Nationalism or Neo-Realist Pragmatism?
Inside Japan’s Controversial Military Expansion Decades after World War II, Japan begins an aggressive rearmament program Implications for the stability of the greater Pacific region notwithstanding, what does Japan‘s aggressive expansion of the Self Defense Forces (SDF) projective/offensive military capability mean for Japan‘s place in the wider world? Is Japan merely responding to China‘s (People’s […]
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Japanese Troops Join US Marines in War Games
In a change of pace for the Japanese Self Defense Forces, all three branches of its military are participating with US Marines in war games off the coast of California with an emphasis on training the Japanese troops to hold and defend islands from invading forces. This comes after the controversy that erupted last year […]
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United States and Japan to Review Security Agreement Amid Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Over the Senkaku(尖閣諸島)/Diaoyu( 釣魚台列嶼) Islands
- January 17, 2013
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- 釣魚台列嶼
The United States and Japan will be conducting a thorough review of their joint security arrangements after the election of Shinzo Abe returned the US-friendly Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (自由民主党) to power in Tokyo. Amid worsening tensions with China over the Senkaku Islands(尖閣諸島)/Diaoyu Islands (釣魚台列嶼), and the spectre of a nuclear North Korea capable of […]
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Japan Experimenting with the Deployment of Drones for Missile Interception
The Japanese Self Defense Forces are exploring the use of drones in early missile launch detection and interception. The idea was spurred by the failure of North Korea to launch its missile in April. The current Japanese early warning system, an array of systems comprised of satellites, aegis cruisers, and ground based radar, was unable […]
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Japanese defense spending only behind that of the US and China?
Japan, a pacifist country that has had a rough year so far, apparently has the third largest defense budget in the world. It is speculated that this posture is maintained because of disputed islands with its neighbors, such as Diaoyu Islands with China and the Kuril Islands with Russia, and that Japan’s increasing involvement with […]
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