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US Approves $200 Million Deal To Aid Japan's High-Speed Weapon Development
3/13/2025
Tokyo Was Filled With Charred Corpses After US Firebombing 80 Years Ago. Survivors Want Compensation
3/10/2025
Trump's Warning Shot to Japan Casts Doubt on US Defense Guarantees in Asia
3/10/2025
Japan's Astroscale Transforms Into Defense Contractor
3/3/2025
Japanese Descendants of Evacuated Iwo Jima Residents Yearn To Live on WWII Island
3/3/2025
The Tiny Japanese Island Militarizing on Taiwan's Doorstep
3/2/2025
Japan Targets Weapons Sales Through Indo-Pacific, as Industrial Ties Lag Strategic Ones
2/26/2025
Japan Reaffirms 'Unwavering' Support for Ukraine, Calls for Peace on Third Anniversary of War
2/26/2025
Philippines, Japan Pledge Further Defense Cooperation Amid South China Sea Spats
2/25/2025
Japan, Philippines To Boost Military Ties Amid 'Severe' Environment
2/24/2025
Afghanistan's Taliban Makes Debut Diplomatic Trip to Japan
2/17/2025
Japanese Man Who Threw Pipe Bomb at Ex-PM Kishida Tells Court He Didn't Intend To Kill
2/4/2025
Japan Buys 150 Standard Missiles for AEGIS-Equipped Vessels, Worth $900 Million
2/3/2025
Japan, US Ministers Express 'Firm Intent' To Reinforce Defense Alliance
2/2/2025
Japan Hosts Chinese Military Delegation in Rare Visit
1/14/2025
Japan To Give Indonesia High-Speed Patrol Boats in Security Deal
1/12/2025
Yakuza Leader Pleads Guilty in New York to Trafficking Nuclear Materials, Narcotics Charges
1/8/2025
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivor, Who Devoted His Life for Peace, Dies at 93
1/5/2025
China and Japan Agree to Talks on Security Issues as They Seek To Mend Ties
12/25/2024
Philippines Ratifies Key Defense Pact With Japan
12/16/2024
US Starts Relocating Marines From Japan's Okinawa
12/15/2024
US Military Eyes Joint Technology Through Japan Space Partnership
12/11/2024
US Defense Secretary in Japan To Support Alliance as Osprey Aircraft Safety Causes Concern
12/10/2024
Japanese Survivor of Atomic Bomb Recalls Its Horrors in Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
12/10/2024
Alcohol Banned for USS George Washington Crew Following Sailor Deaths
12/5/2024
Japan Grants Philippines $11 Million in Security Aid To Bolster Defenses
12/5/2024
Two USS George Washington Sailors Die Days Apart After Reaching Japan, Navy Says
12/4/2024
US Stealth Fighters Will Arrive in Northern Japan in 2026, Local Official Says
12/2/2024
Japan Bids for Australia's $6.5 Billion Next-Gen Warships
12/2/2024
Italy, Japan Sign Agreement on Defense Cooperation: Statement
11/25/2024
Report: US to Deploy Missiles to Southern Japanese Islands if China Attacks Taiwan
11/24/2024
Japan To Draw Up New Strategy To Beef Up Defense Industry, Exports
11/24/2024
Japan Says It Will 'Closely Watch' China's Military Activity After Beijing Admits Spy Plane Violated Airspace
11/20/2024
US, South Korea and Japan Slam 'Dangerous' Ties Between Russia, North Korea
11/16/2024
Japan Will Resume V-22 Flights After Inquiry Finds Pilot Error Caused Incident Last Month
11/14/2024

Viewpoints

Bring Our Marines Home
2/2/2010
Old US Allies Are Hedging Their Strategic Bets
12/13/2009
Of Course US Nukes Were Stationed in Japan's Ports
12/8/2009
Teddy Roosevelt's Role in WWII
12/5/2009
US Nuclear Arms in Japan: A Firsthand Account
11/17/2009
Escape From Dependency: An Agenda for Transforming the Structure of Japanese Security and the US-Japan Relationship
9/7/2009
Japanese Landslide a Mixed Bag for US
9/2/2009
'To Protect Japan's Peace We Need Guns and Rockets': The Military Uses of Popular Culture in Current-Day Japan
8/24/2009
The Pure Horror of Hiroshima
8/18/2009
Bombings Worse Than Nagasaki and Hiroshima
8/14/2009
Outdated US Military Bases in Japan
8/7/2009
Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years
8/5/2009
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
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

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