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DEFENSE

COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2014
Raise U.S. defense spending now
The Obama White House and Congress are systematically reducing America's military power as if the Ukraine crisis, the expansion of the Islamic State's footprint and China's harassment of ships in disputed waters have not happened in the past year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 8, 2014
Eto pledges to move quickly on Futenma relocation
New Defense Minister Akinori Eto says he will make every effort to achieve the “earliest possible” relocation of the Futenma base to the proposed site further north on Okinawa Island.
EDITORIALS
Sep 5, 2014
Biggest defense budget requests
The Defense Ministry's fiscal 2015 budgetary request of ¥5.05 trillion is the largest ever and represents a 3.5 percent rise from the current year's budget. It is the third-straight year-on-year increase.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 3, 2014
Faced with many challenges, reshuffled Cabinet must hit the ground running
Faced with diplomatic and defense-related challenges that could decide the fate of the Abe administration, the reshuffled Cabinet must hit the ground running after its launch Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 2, 2014
Wrong path to full sovereignty
The change in the government's long-standing interpretation of Article 9 of the Constitution may lift some restrictions on Japan's use of military force, but Japan will not become a full-fledged sovereign state as long as it has a leader who can neither think autonomously nor press a case on behalf of Japan with a negotiating partner.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 29, 2014
Japan defense budget request highest ever as Abe boosts military
Defense planners seek a record high ¥5.05 trillion budget for 2015 as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bolsters the military in the face growing tensions with China and North Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2014
India's Modi eyes breakthrough nuclear pact on Japan trip
Indian leader Narendra Modi will try to assure Japan it will not conduct weapons tests or divert fuel when she visits Tokyo to sign a nuclear energy pact.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 23, 2014
Thousands march on Henoko base site
More than 3,500 demonstrators marched to U.S. Marine Corps Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Saturday in the largest show of anger to date against the new American base being built off Henoko Bay to replace Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in crowded Ginowan further southwest.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 22, 2014
U.S. defense official praises Abe for bolstering military alliance
A high-ranking U.S. defense official visiting Tokyo said Friday that the U.S. appreciates recent actions taken by the Abe administration to bolster the Japan-U.S. military alliance.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2014
Aging WWII veterans fret about shift away from pacifist principles
Tokuro Inokuma, a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, got his first taste of the horrors of war in 1945 when he scrambled to gather up the scattered limbs of his fellow servicemen, blown apart by a U.S. air raid in Japan. He was 16.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Final weeks of World Expo in Osaka likely to see large crowds
With one month left to go, crowds are expected to swell at the World Expo in Osaka during its final weeks.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

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