arms trade

National / Media | MEDIA MIX Dec 2, 2017

Japan's plan to export arms is lacking ammo

by Philip Brasor

When U.S. President Donald Trump was here last month, he said Japan should be buying more military hardware from America, and seemed to believe it would. Trump's penchant for talking off-the-cuff is well-known, but Japan's reluctance to address the matter forthrightly may have more ...

National Feb 16, 2014

Tokyo set to approve U.N. global arms pact

A bill to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty, the first international pact to regulating trade in conventional arms, is scheduled to be submitted to the Diet by the end of this month, government sources said. The measure, coming less than a year after Japan signed ...