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U S DEFENSE

BUSINESS / Tech
May 21, 2013
China tapped Google server secrets
Chinese hackers who breached Google's servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years' worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials.
EDITORIALS
May 21, 2013
Window on China's defense policy
China's critics are usually disappointed by its annual white paper on national defense. Beijing's eighth white paper since 1998 is notable for its view of U.S. policy.
COMMENTARY / World
May 15, 2013
U.S. defense cuts: An ax is needed, not a scalpel
The fact the U.S. government devotes too much to Social Security is no argument for spending too much on the military. The defense budget could use a meat-ax.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
May 13, 2013
Is missile defense useful?
As Japan pours huge sums of taxpayer money into its missile defense system, the SDF is functioning more like a subcontractor for the U.S. armed forces.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Apr 30, 2013
Stand up to Abe for the sake of Japan, Asia's future
Life is comparable to a spiritual drama that in retrospect can be recalled as a series of happy, sad and bitter memories
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Apr 29, 2013
Nuclear arms card for Japan
The Foreign Ministry has been conducting clandestine studies about the potential development of nuclear weapons in Japan, and the U.S. is nervous about it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 6, 2013
Cameron uses Korean crisis to defend nuclear arsenal
Prime Minister David Cameron warned against any move to abandon the U.K.'s submarine-based nuclear weapons, citing a growing threat from North Korea and Iran as his Liberal Democrat coalition partners consider scaling back the missile program.
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2013
Funds gripe snags SDF isle defense deployment
The Defense Ministry may have to abandon a plan to station a Ground Self-Defense Force coastal monitoring unit on Okinawa's Yonaguni Island because negotiations with the town over the price of land have deadlocked.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 29, 2013
Defense institute seeks integrated efforts with U.S.
Amid the changing security situation in East Asia, Japan should be equipped with more flexible and integrated defense capabilities and enhanced coordination among the Self-Defense Forces, the Japan Coast Guard and the U.S. military, according to the 2013 East Asian Strategic Review released Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 29, 2013
Obama reveals support for 'strong Jewish state'
Operation Desert Schmooze, President Barack Obama's two-day charm offensive in Jerusalem last week, achieved its central goal of convincing Israelis that the U.S. president doesn't have horns.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2013
Testing times for U.S., China
It's easy to imagine the U.S. as a threat to China when the U.S. spends six times more on defense and has pacts with Japan, India and South Korea.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 18, 2013
SDF graduates warned of 'here and now' crisis
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warns this year's graduating class at the National Defense Academy that today's territorial 'provocations' against Japan could easily turn into a military crisis tomorrow.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 14, 2013
Obama's well-timed pivot to the Pacific
In his push to get U.S. troops out of the Mideast, President Barack Obama seems at times to be a man fleeing a burning building for a calmer place.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 13, 2013
F-35's story illustrates challenge of paring U.S. defense budget
With an ear-ringing roar, the matte-gray fighter jet streaked down Runway 12 and sliced into a cloudless afternoon sky over the Florida Panhandle. To those watching on the ground, the sleek, bat-winged fuselage soon shrank into a speck, and then nothing at all, as U.S. Marine Capt. Brendan Walsh arcked...
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 1, 2013
Export of Japan-made F-35 parts to get exemption
The government will allow Japanese companies to take part in the manufacture of parts for F-35 fighter jet as an exception to the nation's ban exporting weapons.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2013
Leon Panetta: a legacy of the conventional wisdom
Leon Panetta's failure to accommodate a rapidly changing world will be his most important, and disappointing, legacy as U.S. secretary of defense.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 27, 2013
Hagel lands defense post but fails to win over opponents
Chuck Hagel is set to be sworn in as U.S. defense secretary, battered by a confirmation fight even as he faces challenges from Pentagon budget cuts to withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 27, 2013
Boosting the Japan-U.S. alliance
If the two countries work to tackle problems in their own societies, the Japan-U.S. partnership could be as significant in the future as it has ever been.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 20, 2013
Japan's step toward normalcy
It's hard to understand why some elements in Japan and overseas argue that the Abe Cabinet is causing Japanese politics to swing dangerously right.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 13, 2013
Japan as a normal country
The U.S. should reject the notion of preparing for war in the Pacific, and let Japan and its neighbors cooperate to counter Beijing's geopolitical ambitions.

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