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SECURITY

COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 20, 2015
Japan bears a greater responsibility at the U.N.
No country is better positioned to serve as a 'bridge' between the U.N. Security Council and the general U.N. membership than Japan, given its leading experience as a non-permanent member of the UNSC.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 16, 2015
In an about face, JCP says it would support Japan-U.S. military pact in some scenarios
The Japanese Communist Party, which has long regarded the United States as its sworn enemy, has made what appears to be a historic change of its policy stance — at least for now.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 16, 2015
Security legislation promises more than it can deliver
Japan's new security legislation will do little to deter China or North Korea, and the SDF is not large or strong enough to turn the tides of war in international peacekeeping and possible U.S.-led war efforts.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 14, 2015
Opposition contests chaotic Upper House vote, assails LDP for amending record of events
Was the vote valid?
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Oct 14, 2015
Views from Tokyo: Have you felt Japan shifting to the right recently under Abe?
With the media reporting breathlessly that Japan is lurching to the right under the Shinzo Abe government, have people out and about in Tokyo sensed a rightward tilt?
EDITORIALS
Oct 6, 2015
Legislation Bureau misconduct
The Cabinet Legislation Bureau's failure to keep records of its internal discussions leading up to the Abe administration's reinterpretation of Article 9 only deepens suspicions about the legal legitimacy of the Cabinet decision and the subsequent security legislation.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2015
U.S. should charge the world for defending it
if U.S. policymakers can't get over the idea of attempting to manage the affairs of every other nation, at least they should insist on charging for services provided at American citizens' expense.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 4, 2015
Japan rightists' patient wait is over as conveyor belt of death shudders back to life
He's done it.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 3, 2015
Unclear on the concept
What are all these people (in front of the Diet) protesting about?
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 29, 2015
Tough challenge awaits both ruling and opposition parties
The Liberal Democratic Party badly needs a course correction, but the lack of internal opposition to Shinzo Abe makes this nearly impossible.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 28, 2015
Abe's military push proves to be losing trade as defense stocks sink
Equity investors looking to profit from Japan's move away from pacifism might find that easier said than done.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 28, 2015
China's Japan-bashing: Is there any hope for goodwill?
As China regularly whips itself up into frenzy over Japan, it is easy to forget that the anti-Japanese sentiment is only a recent phenomenon.

Longform

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’