Kiyofumi Iwata's Archives
【#1125】Japan Should Not Shy Away from Nuclear Discussion
March 11, 2024 Following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement that he would make nuclear weapons “combat-ready” shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, BBC reported that this raised th...
February 19, 2024 The leadership of the Komeito Party, a junior coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, remains cautious over the joint development of the next-generation fighter...
December 4, 2023 The ruling parties’ coordination on Japan’s overseas defense equipment transfers between Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito is in disarray as the latter ha...
【#1066】Japan Should Move to Arms Aid to Ukraine
August 28, 2023 Japan’s self-imposed restrictions, such as the former Three Principles on Arms Exports and their revised version known as Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Tech...
April 3, 2023 It is needless to say that a Taiwan contingency would amount to a Japan contingency. A sense of crisis regarding a probable Taiwan contingency is growing as never before in the Unite...
【#994】Japan’s Historic Defense Policy Turnaround
December 19, 2022 At a cabinet meeting on December 16, the Japanese government decided on its three strategic documents, namely, the National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy and Defen...
【#966】Check Russia with Japan-U.S. Joint Drills
September 20, 2022 On September 11, Ukrainian forces won back Izyum, a strategic hub in the northeastern Ukraine state of Kharkiv, after advancing as much as 80 to 100 kilometers in four days. At ...
【#949】Enhance Deterrence to Taiwan Strait Crisis
August 1, 2022 The United States and China have been jockeying over U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned visit to Taiwan. In a two-hour call with U.S. President Joe Biden on July 28, Chinese ...
【#909】Japan Should Explore Participation in AUKUS
April 11, 2022 The United States, Britain and Australia are now promoting a project for the Australian Navy to acquire a nuclear-powered submarine under their AUKUS security partnership framework ...
【#899】Why Not Discuss Nuclear Weapons?
March 14, 2022 In a television program on October 15, 2006, Shoichi Nakagawa, then chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Policy Research Council, called for carrying out thorough discu...