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SECURITY

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2015
Key Democrat Feinstein hits U.S. approach to strengthening, spreading Islamic State
Leading Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on Sunday the United States is not doing enough to fight Islamic State, and the group is gaining strength outside Iraq and Syria.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 21, 2015
Press gets tense over possible terrorism in Tokyo
Look around, if you will, for a waste receptacle on any station platform in the Tokyo metropolitan area; you won't find one. Their disappearance, a precautionary measure against urban terrorism, can be dated to the immediate aftermath of the nerve gas attack on the city's subway system by members of...
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2015
Tokyo criticized after advertises for part-time anti-terrorism analyst
Experts voiced doubt Wednesday at just how serious Tokyo is in trying to collect intelligence on terrorism after the Foreign Ministry posted a job offer on its website in September seeking a part-time security analyst on global terrorism.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Nov 16, 2015
'Proactive pacifism' makes Japan a target for Islamic terrorists: experts
The terrorist attacks Friday in Paris highlight the need for Japan to be on high alert as it prepares to host such high-profile events as next year's Group of Seven summit and the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 12, 2015
U.S. airports feel urgent need to up worker screening after suspected bombing of Metrojet
The suspected bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt is raising concerns about security loopholes in the U.S., where the vast majority of the almost 1 million employees at airports aren't subject to searches like those that travelers receive.
JAPAN
Nov 9, 2015
After controversial security laws comment, Doshisha president loses re-election bid
Koji Murata, the president of Doshisha University in Kyoto Prefecture who drew flak in July for supporting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's security legislation, has lost his bid for re-election.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2015
U.N. University chief urges Japan not to squander Security Council chance
A high-ranking U.N. official expresses hope that Tokyo will make contributions to global human security as well as specific issues such as Syria when it sits on the Security Council.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 30, 2015
Japanese pacifism is not the moral choice
Only in Japan is unilateral pacifism considered viable, but in a world of new threats a policy of sympathetic indifference is morally questionable.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 30, 2015
Gauging Abe's 'proactive contributions to peace'
While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has talked a good game about Japan playing a bigger international role, his track record so far shows little has changed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 28, 2015
Anti-war student organization to close shop after Upper House poll
SEALDs, the group behind youth protests against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's security legislation, announces it will disband after next year's Upper House election.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 28, 2015
OVERSEAs Japanese show solidarity with activists back home
OVERSEAs is a loose collective that aims to unite Japanese-speaking people who want to support specific domestic causes from outside the country.
EDITORIALS
Oct 27, 2015
Hold an extraordinary Diet session
The Abe administration has no compelling reason to reject the call by opposition parties to convene an extraordinary Diet session.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2015
Anticipating more muscular missions, MSDF launches new minesweeper
Amid the national debate over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's proactive security policy and newly enacted laws, a state-of-the-art minesweeper built for the Maritime Self-Defense Force was launched Tuesday in a ceremony in Yokohama.

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