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2025.07.02 (Wed)

【#1266】Japan Should Revise Outdated Strategy Documents Within This Year

June 30, 2025 　 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its summit on June 25 approved a goal of increasing defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in each member country by 2035. E...

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2025.06.12 (Thu)

【#1258】Protect Japan from Pearl Harbor-like Attack

June 9, 2025 　 On June 1, Ukraine carried out a historic surprise attack using small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, damaging a lot of Russian Air Force planes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Ze...

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2025.06.04 (Wed)

【#1257】Wake Up to China’s Enhancement of Invasion Capabilities

June 2, 2025 　 From May 25 to 29, several Chinese naval vessels, including the aircraft carrier Liaoning, sailed southeast from the East China Sea to the Pacific Ocean through the waters between the...

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2025.06.04 (Wed)

【#1256】Japan Must Demonstrate Seriousness about Effective Control of Senkakus

June 2, 2025 　 For about 15 minutes from around 12:21 on May 3, a helicopter from a China Coast Guard ship in Japan’s territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands violated Japan’s airspace above th...

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2025.03.25 (Tue)

【#1237】Japan Should Develop Taiwan Strategy Quickly

March 24, 2025 　 The U.S. national security strategy is undergoing a tectonic shift under the Trump administration. Washington has made conspicuous moves to withdraw from Europe, including beginnin...

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2025.03.05 (Wed)

【#1229】Japan Should Aim to Develop Independent Defense Force

March 3, 2025 　 On February 28, a U.S.-Ukraine summit meeting in Washington broke down with an altercation, leading the planned signing of an agreement on Ukrainian mineral resources and a joint pre...

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2025.02.27 (Thu)

【#1225】Japan Should Convince Trump of Need to Strengthen Alliance

February 25, 2025 　 Three years have passed since the start of the war in Ukraine. With no end in sight to the war, negotiations towards a ceasefire began one month after U.S. President Donald Trump...

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2024.08.06 (Tue)

【#1168】Deter Tactical Nuclear Attacks with Non-Nuclear Missiles

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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2024.07.02 (Tue)

【#1158】Take All Possible Measures to Counter New Axis of Evil

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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2024.06.26 (Wed)

【#1155】Japan Should Prepare for Russia-North Korea Military Alliance

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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