Japan Institute for National Fundamentals

2024.10.03 (Thu)

【#1187】SDF Ship’s Passage through Taiwan Strait Represents Step Forward

September 30, 2024 　 The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s destroyer Sazanami passed through the Taiwan Strait on September 25. It coordinated the passage with a Royal Australian Navy destroyer an...

2024.09.11 (Wed)

【#1178】Chinese Military Ship’s Survey Would Violate International Law

September 9, 2024 　 On August 31, a Shupang-class survey ship of the Chinese Navy intruded into Japanese territorial waters in the Tokara Strait off Kuchinoerabu Island in Kagoshima Prefecture. In r...

2019.04.17 (Wed)

【#587】Find F-35A Crash Cause and Take Countermeasures

April 15, 2019 　　　　　Around 7 p.m. on April 9, a sophisticated F-35A stealth jet fighter of the Air Self-Defense Force based in Misawa air base crashed during a combat exercise in Pacific waters of...

2017.07.12 (Wed)

【#452】Japan Should Contribute to FONOP — A Year after Arbitral Ruling

July 10, 2017 　　　　　July 12 marks the first anniversary of an arbitral ruling on China’s construction of artificial islands and other activities in the South China Sea. The ruling on the petition f...

2016.12.14 (Wed)

【#412】Deplorable Lack of Essential Debate on SDF’s “Coming to Aid” Mission

December 12, 2016 　　　　　A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force unit participating in the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan, known as UNMISS, was given a new mission to come to the...

2016.07.22 (Fri)

【#388】International Framework Required for Surveillance on South China Sea

July 19, 2016 　　　　　In the wake of a ruling by an international arbitral tribunal that denied China’s claim to sovereignty on the South China Sea, the Chair’s Statement at the 11th Asia-Europe Meet...

2016.07.15 (Fri)

【#387(Special)】I Saw South China Sea Tribunal Fair and Neutral

July 13, 2016 　　　　　An arbitral ruling has come out on a Philippine-China dispute over the South China Sea. The ruling on July 12 denied China’s claim to historic rights in the sea within the so-ca...

2016.06.22 (Wed)

【#382】Chinese War Ship’s Intrusion as Seen from International Law

June 20, 2016 　　　　　On June 15, a Chinese war ship passed through Japanese territorial waters around Kuchinoerabu Island in Kagoshima Prefecture. The Chinese Navy’s Dongdiao-class electronic reconn...

2016.01.27 (Wed)

【#352】Form Coalition of Law-abiding Countries Following Philippine Court Ruling

January 25, 2016 　　　　　On January 12, the Philippine Supreme Court ruled that the U.S.-Philippine Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) is constitutional. Procedures for the effectuation of...