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WEAPONS

Japan Times
WORLD / EXPLAINER
Oct 11, 2022
From 'football' to 'biscuits': how to launch U.S. nukes on the go
The president has no big red button to push and whatever he orders still has to filter through several sets of human beings before becoming reality.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 9, 2022
Learn from history over nuclear threats, pope says
Pope Francis on Sunday urged the world to choose the path of peace and learn from history after Russia's threat of nuclear war in Ukraine.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 9, 2022
North Korea fires off two more missiles for seventh launch in two weeks
Japan's Defense Ministry said it was continuing to analyze the missiles, including the possibility that both could have been submarine-launched weapons.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 9, 2022
F-35 deliveries to resume after Chinese alloy prompted halt
U.S. law and Pentagon acquisition regulations prohibit the use of specialty metals or alloys made in China, Iran, North Korea or Russia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 8, 2022
North Korea says missile tests are self-defense against U.S. threat
The missile tests were a “regular and planned self-defensive step for defending the country's security and the regional peace from the U.S. direct military threats,' state media said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 8, 2022
Putin 'in a corner' with options narrowing
The question of 'off-ramps' — or decisions that allow the Russian leader to end the fighting without admitting defeat — continues to vex Western analysts, who see no good options.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Oct 7, 2022
The time to remain resolute is when North Korea provokes
North Korea's leadership truly believes it needs nuclear weapons to survive — and Russia's nuclear threats appear to backstop that logic.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 6, 2022
North Korea keeps up record pace of missile tests as U.S. carrier is redeployed
The repeated missile tests — 24 rounds this year alone — have signaled that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has no intention of backing down.
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Oct 5, 2022
Harsh rhetoric and shows of force unlikely to deter North Korea
The U.S., Japan and South Korea quickly responded to Pyongyang's latest provocation, but the nuclear-armed nation appears determined to proceed with its weapons tests.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2022
North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan for first time since 2017
The missile, which was estimated to have traveled 4,600 km, prompted Tokyo to issue a rare alert calling for residents to take cover.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2022
Japan residents wake up to rare J-Alert missile warning
Under the J-system, developed in 2007, messages are sent in times of national emergencies such as earthquakes, terrorist attacks and certain missile launches.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 2, 2022
In Washington, Putin’s nuclear threats stir growing alarm
For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, top government leaders in Moscow are making explicit nuclear threats and officials in Washington are gaming out scenarios.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 1, 2022
Imagery points to possible North Korea submarine missile test
The nuclear-armed country may be preparing for a test, U.S. researchers say, after a cylindrical object resembling one of its advanced sub-launched missiles was spotted at a key port area.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 1, 2022
In first, North Korea tests missiles for fourth time in a week
Saturday's launches of two apparent short-range weapons were the North's sixth and seventh missiles fired since Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 1, 2022
U.S. would know if Russia prepares nuclear strike, experts say
The United States would almost certainly discover ahead of time if Russia was preparing a nuclear strike on Ukraine, and Moscow might very well want it known, analysts say.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 1, 2022
With bluster and threats, Putin casts the West as the enemy
Declaring that Russia would annex four regions of Ukraine, which the West rejects as illegal, the Russian president has accused the U.S. and its allies of “despotism'' and “satanism.''
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2022
Preparing for the long war
Vladimir Putin's latest moves suggest that Russia is settling in for a long war of attrition that will test European resolve.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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