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Japanese Premier Takaichi Calls for Debate on Revising War-Renouncing Constitution After Securing Election Win
2/8/2026
Japan Deep-Sea Hunt Finds Rare Earths as It Seeks To Cut Reliance on China
2/2/2026
Japan PM Says US Alliance Would Collapse if Tokyo Ignored Taiwan Crisis
1/27/2026
Japanese American Soldiers Once Branded 'Enemy Aliens' To Be Promoted Posthumously
1/26/2026
Japan Audit Flags $7.1 Billion in Undelivered US Military Equipment After Five Years
1/26/2026
US Prepares Misawa Air Base in Japan for Stealth Jets
1/25/2026
1,500 US Marines and Japanese Troops To Train on First Island Chain Defense Next Month
1/21/2026
Japan Accuses US of Failing To Meet $6.9 Billion Arms Supply Deals
1/20/2026
Japan's PM Takaichi Will Dissolve Parliament, Call Snap Election
1/19/2026
Japan, Philippines Sign New Defense Pacts Amid Surging China Tensions
1/15/2026
Japan Sends Last Batch of Military Vehicles to Ukraine
1/14/2026
Japan Uses Robotic Dogs During Airborne Assault Drill
1/11/2026
China Bans Export of Dual-Use Items to Japan Amid Tensions Over Taiwan
1/7/2026
Families Tell Stories of Allied POWs in Nagasaki During the Atomic Bombing
12/31/2025
North Korea Says Japan's Nuclear Ambitions Must Be Stopped 'at Any Cost'
12/21/2025
China Urges All 'Peace-Loving' Nations To 'Firmly Thwart' Any Move To 'Revive Japanese Militarism'
12/16/2025
DNA Testing Identifies Atomic Bomb Victim in Japan 80 Years Later
12/16/2025
China Holds Low-Key Nanjing Massacre Memorial Without Xi Amid Japan Row
12/13/2025
US Parachute Mishap in Japan Sparks Protests After Debris Falls Near Kids' Center
12/12/2025
US and Japan Stage Joint Air Drills After China-Russia Patrols Near Japanese Airspace
12/11/2025
Japan Summons China Envoy Over 'Fighter Jet Radar Lock' as Tensions Surge
12/8/2025
The Japanese American 'Draft Dodgers' of WWII
12/3/2025
Japan Plans To Export Military Command, Control System to the Philippines
12/3/2025
China Says It Will Not Allow Japanese 'Militarism To Stage a Comeback'
11/23/2025
US Approves $82 Million Sale of Guided and GP Bombs, Guidance Kits to Japan
11/20/2025
Japan's Tourism Stocks Plunge Amid Spat With China
11/17/2025
China Issues Travel Warning for Japan Over Threats To Intervene in Taiwan
11/15/2025
Japan May Follow South Korea's Path in Seeking Nuclear Submarines
11/13/2025
Japanese Utilities Confident in Replacing Russian LNG
11/2/2025
Trump Says First Batch of Missiles for Japanese F-35s Will Be Delivered This Week
10/29/2025
Suspect Pleads Guilty To Murdering Former Japanese PM Abe
10/28/2025
Trump Praises Japan's New Prime Minister, Saying the US Is an 'Ally at the Strongest Level'
10/28/2025
Marines Fire HIMARS for First Time Near Mount Fuji
10/27/2025
Japan Launches New Unmanned Cargo Spacecraft to Space Station
10/26/2025
Japan's New Premier Vows To Boost Defense Spending, Calls China an 'Important Neighbor'
10/26/2025

Viewpoints

80 Years After Hiroshima, Calls to 'Nuke Gaza' Show Little Was Learned
8/6/2025
After Nuking Japan, We Staged a Football Game in the Fallout Zone
8/4/2025
From Gaza to Kyiv to Nagasaki, the Pontiff's Message Was Consistent and Sometimes He Was Mocked for It
4/24/2025
Japanese Americans Returned From Prison Camps 80 Years Ago to Face One of the Country's 'Greatest Swindles'
2/3/2025
79 Years After Hiroshima & Nagasaki: a Grim Reminder of Nuclear Annihilation
8/1/2024
The Bombing of Hiroshima: the Crime and the Cover-Up
8/15/2023
The US Nuked Nagasaki 78 Years Ago Today. Oppenheimer Barely Mentions It.
8/9/2023
Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings Were Needless, Said World War II's Top US Military Leaders
8/2/2023
Japan Crosses the Rubicon
12/26/2022
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Ukraine
10/4/2022
Captives in Our Own Country: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During WWII
12/6/2021
The Hiroshima Myth
8/3/2021
Japanese Pot Calls European Kettle Black
6/23/2021
Wholesale Slaughter of Japanese Non-Combatants in WWII Was Evil
9/1/2020
The Hiroshima Myth
8/9/2020
Dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Was Unnecessary
8/6/2020
Why Blockading Would Have Been Better Than Bombing Japan
8/6/2020
How US Spies Secured the Uranium for Hiroshima
8/6/2020
American Conservatives Are the Forgotten Critics of the Atomic Bombing of Japan
8/5/2020
Truman's War Crimes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8/5/2020
The Decision to Drop the Bomb on Japan and the Genesis of the Cold War
8/5/2020
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8/2/2020
Hiroshima
8/2/2020
Hiroshima and Nagasaki as Collateral Damage
7/29/2020
South Korea and Japan: a Mutual Loathing the US Can't Fix
9/5/2019
In a Major Shift, South Korea Defies Its Alliance With Japan
8/27/2019
Warmongering Neocon 'Free Beacon' Glorifies Hiroshima Bombing
8/6/2019
American Conservatives Are the Forgotten Critics of the Atomic Bombing of Japan
8/4/2019
Don't Whitewash the Hiroshima Bombing
8/4/2019
Japanese Internment Was Wrong. Why Do Some of Our Leaders Still Try to Justify It?
2/20/2019
The Atomic Bombing of Japan, Reconsidered
1/1/2019
Hiroshima Revisited
8/1/2018
Don't Whitewash the Hiroshima Bombing
8/6/2017
Are the Senkaku Islands Worth War Between China, Japan and America?
2/14/2017
US Military Returns Land to Japan, but Okinawa Isn't Celebrating
12/21/2016

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