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2023.04.05 (Wed)

【#1029】Government Should Lead Japan’s Strengthened Cooperation with Taiwan

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...

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2022.12.21 (Wed)

【#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...

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2022.09.22 (Thu)

【#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 ...

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2022.08.03 (Wed)

【#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 ...

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2022.04.13 (Wed)

【#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 ...

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2022.03.16 (Wed)

【#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...

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2022.01.19 (Wed)

【#873】Japan Should Be Serious about Developing Arrangements to Protect People

January 17, 2022 　 Last October, the Taiwanese defense minister indicated China could be ready to mount a full-scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025. Last June, the U.S. Indo-Pacific commander told the S...

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2020.09.17 (Thu)

【#719(Special)】China Is a National Security Threat

September 14, 2020 　 While expanding its hegemony under the slogan of “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” China has repeated joint naval and air force exercises in the western Pacific in a...

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