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Air Force Ospreys Make First Landing on Japanese Destroyer to Start Keen Sword Drills
10/27/2020
Japan Rejects Nuclear Ban Treaty; Survivors to Keep Pushing
10/26/2020
Japan and US Begin Major Military Exercise
10/26/2020
Japan's Plan to Build Missile Defense System at Sea Faces Mounting Costs
10/22/2020
Japan PM Opposes Any Step to Heighten South China Sea Tension
10/19/2020
Japan to Export Defense Tech to Vietnam Under New Agreement
10/19/2020
Japan, Vietnam Agree to Boost Defense Ties, Resume Flights
10/19/2020
With Eye on China, Japan's Suga Seeks Tighter Ties With Vietnam, Indonesia
10/16/2020
Japan Will Not Join US Plan to Bar China From Telecoms Networks: Yomiuri
10/16/2020
Japan Launches First of Its New Class of Submarines
10/14/2020
Japan and India Join 'Five Eyes' Alliance to Demand Backdoor Access to Encrypted Apps
10/12/2020
Japan Coast Guard Says Chinese Vessels Sail Near Disputed East China Sea Islands
10/11/2020
Japan Sends Three Vessels to South China Sea in Anti-Submarine Exercise
10/10/2020
Japan Defense Minister Meets With US Commander About China
10/8/2020
US and Japanese Forces Will Practice Island Amphibious Landings Together This Month
10/8/2020
Japan Defense Chief, US Commander Share Concerns Over China
10/8/2020
Pompeo Slams China in Tokyo Visit, Seeks Asian Alliance
10/6/2020
Pompeo's Message in Japan: Countering China Is Worth Meeting Face to Face
10/6/2020
Japan Reveals Record High Budget Request Eyeing Hypersonic Tech, F-35s and More
10/1/2020
Japan's Military Seeks Record $52 Billion Budget
9/30/2020
Japan's Military Asks New Government to Continue Strengthening of Armed Forces
9/30/2020
Japan's Rejection of China Olive Branch on Senkaku-Diaoyu Spat May Be Sign of Tighter US Ties
9/28/2020
Japan's Suga Makes Fresh Pitch for Meeting With Kim Jong Un
9/25/2020
Boat Intercepted in 2018 Carried Would-Be Kim Jong UN Assassins, Ex-Official Says
9/22/2020
Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe Visits Controversial Shrine for War Dead
9/19/2020
Japan Lawmakers Call for Military Drills With US Around Disputed Islets
9/17/2020
Taiwan Ties of Japan's New Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi Sparks Reaction From China
9/16/2020
Japan's Suga to Formally Take Up PM Job, Announce Cabinet
9/15/2020
China Eager to Keep Stable Ties With Japan as Suga Elected LDP Head
9/14/2020
Japan PM Wants First-Strike Capabilities
9/11/2020
Japan's Abe Seeks Preemptive Strike Capacity in Policy Shift
9/11/2020
75 Years Later, Japanese Man Recalls Bitter Internment in US
8/31/2020
Japan Secures First-Ever Major Defense Export With Philippine Radar Order
8/28/2020
US, Japan Defense Chiefs to Talk China Tensions at Meet in Guam
8/28/2020
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Resigns, Citing Health Reasons
8/28/2020

Viewpoints

The Lessons of August
8/5/2009
64 Years Too Late and Not a Moment Too Soon
8/4/2009
Reinterpreting Early August
8/3/2009
Jeff McMahan's Killing in War
6/18/2009
What About the Yamashita Doctrine?
5/8/2009
Jon Stewart: Wimp, Wuss, Moral Coward
5/5/2009
No Nukes in Northeast Asia
3/9/2009
With One Sentence, Japan Could Set the Stage for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace
10/6/2008
Time to Tell Irresponsible Allies No Thanks
9/19/2008
Mass Destruction or Mass Distraction?
9/8/2008
War Crimes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8/14/2008
The Lies of Hiroshima Live On, Props in the War Crimes of the 20th Century
8/8/2008
The Challenge of Hiroshima
8/6/2008
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8/5/2008
Remembering Hiroshima
8/5/2008
The Growing Military-Industrial Complex in Asia
2/13/2008
Conservative Revisionists and Hiroshima
11/26/2007
The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima
11/10/2007
Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima
11/7/2007
Fatal Deliverance From an 'Iron Storm'
11/2/2007
When Reel Tales Rewrite Real History
10/30/2007
Japan's Self-Defense Forces: Living With a Lie
9/24/2007
US Film on A-Bomb Witnesses Debuts
8/17/2007
Instant Death
8/11/2007
Hillary, Hiroshima, and Hubris
8/8/2007
Remembering Hiroshima
8/6/2007
White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8/5/2007
The Bombing of Nagasaki Aug. 9, 1945: The Untold Story
8/5/2007
Keeping the Horror of Hiroshima Alive
8/4/2007
A New Era in Asia: Japan Rising
7/6/2007
Letters to the Past: Iwo Jima and Japanese Memory
3/6/2007
Cheney: Thanks for Cutting and Running
2/22/2007
New Book Reveals Long-Suppressed First Dispatches From A-Bombed Nagasaki
12/28/2006
Outstanding Films Show Savagery of War in Pacific
12/26/2006
Waterboarding, Then and Now
11/8/2006

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