Tokyo Review
Security
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6.8KWhat to Make of the Self Defense Force “Log Scandals”
Of the Abe Administration's many scandals, the issue of hidden mission logs from SDF operations in Iraq and South Sudan is perhaps...
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5.4KJapan, North Korea, and the Trump Shock
Keeping Japan out of the loop as the United States engages with North Korea risks a deep and unpredictable impact on domestic...
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6.8KThe LDP Weighs in on Japan’s Defense Posture
Last week, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Research Commission on National Security published its formal proposal for shaping Japan’s next National Defense...
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4.4KThe Legacy of 3/11 and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Sunday marks the seventh anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the triple disaster that led to tens of thousands of...
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9.4KJapan’s National Security Secretariat, Four Years On
On December 4, 2013, Japan’s National Security Council (NSC) convened for the first time. Certainly, the NSC has been an active security...
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9.8KRelevance Despite Obscurity: Japan and UN Command
On January 16, Canada hosted the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability of the Korean Peninsula. There, representatives from 20 nations...
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5.8KRefocusing the Debate on Japan’s Defense Reform
Major change is afoot in Ichigaya, the Tokyo neighborhood that contains the Japanese Ministry of Defense, in recent weeks; or at least...
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5.8KAviation Incidents: A Primer
On January 9, Japan’s Minister of Defense Itsunori Onodera called his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and talked about two...
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9.0KJapan’s Security Legislation Turns Two
Two years after the passage of Japan's 2015 Peace and Security Legislation, how has the deeply controversial bill actually been implemented in...
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4.8KShooting Down DPRK Missile Tests Won’t Work
The do-something faction of the U.S. foreign policy commentariat has worked itself into a tizzy over the North Korean missile threat. Recent...
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4.9KWhat Does North Korea Want?
Missile and nuclear tests by North Korea are met with fury and disbelief in Japan and the US; but Kim Jong Un...
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5.7KNorth Korea: Decoupling the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Tension over North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs recently took a startlingly intimate turn for residents of Japan’s northernmost prefectures, who were...