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December 18, 2023   At a cabinet meeting in December last year, the government of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida thoroughly revised the National Security Strategy and other related documents, moving t...

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December 11, 2023   It is said that logistics determine the outcome of war. It is also said that there is no victory without air supremacy. Ukraine’s counteroffensive since June has failed to achiev...

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December 11, 2023   While the war between Russia and Ukraine has plunged into a stalemate, the Congress of the United States, the largest military supporter for Ukraine, has been unable to agree on ...

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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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November 27, 2023   Article 4 (1) of Japan’s Public Finance Act, the basic law on national finances, provides for the balanced budget principle that denies dependence on government bonds, while exce...

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November 21, 2023   The U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) ministerial and leaders’ meetings took place last week, producing agreement on “decarbonization” and “clean economy” out of th...

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November 20, 2023   Amid the worst U.S.-China relations since their normalization in 1979, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping at their meeting in a San Francisco suburb on Nov...

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November 20, 2023   At their first meeting in a year, the top Japanese and Chinese leaders, though reaffirming the comprehensive promotion of a “mutually beneficial relationship based on common stra...

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November 13, 2023   Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has repeatedly vowed to amend the constitution during his term. His term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ends in September next y...

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November 6, 2023   As not a few Supreme Court rulings including a recent one on gender change are taken as deviating from public awareness, doubts about the qualifications and awareness of Supreme C...

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