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August 5, 2024   A Japan-U.S. ministerial meeting on extended deterrence took place in Tokyo on July 28. This was the first political-level meeting on U.S. extended deterrence including nuclear dete...

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July 1, 2024   On June 14, the Group of Seven leaders’ communique expressed “deep concern” about China’s support to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. “China is supplying the ability to pro...

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June 24, 2024   On June 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and held a summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. They signed a comprehensive...

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May 7, 2024   “If you don’t approve aid to Ukraine now, Kyiv could lose the war by the end of the year,” U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said on April 18, expressing his sens...

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April 8, 2024   When the United States intercepted top secret Russian communications around October 2022, there were frequent discussions about the use of nuclear weapons within Russian military, Th...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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