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Japan militarizing
Japan militarizing
The brilliant and industrious Japanese people have amazed the world. Their Far East island home has almost no natural resources—but its people. Japan has built one of the greatest economies in the world on the strength of its people. For decades after World War II, it has purposefully declined to convert its strength into aggressive military power. But now that is changing.
Why are we watching this trend?
Japan militarizing
The brilliant and industrious Japanese people have amazed the world. Their Far East island home has almost no natural resources—but its people. Japan has built one of the greatest economies in the world on the strength of its people. For decades after World War II, it has purposefully declined to convert its strength into aggressive military power. But now that is changing.
Why are we watching this trend?
Events
Trumpet Coverage & Events
2023
JAN
  • Britain Trains Japan’s Military
2022
DEC
  • Japan Approves Long-Debated Preemptive ‘Counterstrike’ Capability
  • Japan Is Doubling Its Defense Spending
NOV
  • Japan Throws Lifeline to Beleaguered Russia and Courts China
OCT
  • Japan Is ‘Determined’ to Increase Defense Capacity
  • North Korea Is Officially a Nuclear State
SEPT
  • Japan Caught in Typhoons
JULY
  • A Solution to Escalating Conflicts
  • Shinzō Abe’s Assassination Stuns Japan
2021
DEC
  • Japan’s Defense Budget Breaks Records—Again
OCT
  • Japan Pledges Historic Jump in Military Spending
  • Japanese Carrier Launches First Plane Since World War II
MAY
  • Japan to ‘Drastically’ Increase Defense Budget
  • Japan and France Pledge Allegiance
APR
  • Japan and Indonesia Join Forces
2020
DEC
  • Four Big Asia Stories of 2020
  • Made in Japan: A Defense Budget Fit for an Emperor
  • Japan to Build New Aegis Ships With Preemptive Strike Ability
NOV
  • Why Has ‘Pacifist’ Japan Stockpiled Enough Plutonium to Make 6,000 Nuclear Weapons?
SEPT
  • What to Expect From Japan Under Its New Prime Minister
  • Japan and India Synchronize Their Militaries
JULY
  • As Japan-U.S. Ties Weaken, Russia Steps In
  • Japan Rejects U.S.-Made Missile Defense Systems
2019
NOV
  • America’s Security Alliance With South Korea Is Crumbling
  • Russia and Japan Take Steps Toward Reconciliation
  • Is the Japan-EU Partnership Truly ‘Unexpected’?
  • How Japan Changed the History of Two Countries
OCT
  • Japan Sending Forces to Middle East but Won’t Join U.S. Coalition
APR
  • Japan Deploys Ground Forces Near Disputed Senkaku Islands
MAR
  • Collapse of Trump-Kim Talks Hastens Japan’s Military Normalization
JAN
  • Japan Considers Sending Warships to China’s Fleet Review
2018
DEC
  • Japan Increases Military Spending to Expand Its Firepower
  • Tensions in Okinawa Reveal Problems in the U.S.-Japan Alliance
  • India, Japan Conduct First Joint Air Force Drills
NOV
  • Japanese Military to Expand Base in Djibouti
  • Russia and Japan Accelerate Negotiations to End World War II
  • China and Japan: Working Together on ‘New Silk Road’
OCT
  • Japanese Armor Storms Beach for First Time Since World War II
  • Putin Offers Japan Peace Deal Without Preconditions
SEPT
  • Japanese Prime Minister Wants to Revise Pacifist Constitution to Create Military Force
AUG
  • Thousands Rally to Remove U.S. Military Base From Okinawa
JULY
  • Japan Stockpiling Plutonium—Preparing to Go Nuclear?
  • Week in Review: Trump Criticizes NATO Allies, Germany Courts China, Japan Seeks First-Strike Capacity, and Much More
APR
  • Japan Commissions First Marine Unit Since World War II
MAR
  • Japan: A New Leader in Global Trade
JAN
  • Japanese Military Seeking First Aircraft Carriers Since World War II
2017
DEC
  • How Japan’s Heiwaboke—‘Peace Idiots’—Are Losing
NOV
  • Will Russia Push Japan to End Its Defense Treaty With the U.S.?
  • Pundits Demand a Nuclear-Armed Japan
OCT
  • Shinzō Abe Gains Two-Thirds Majority in Snap Elections
SEPT
  • Japan Will Want a Strongman for the Time Ahead
  • Facing North Korean Threat, Japan Considers Nukes
AUG
  • North Korean Missile Alarms Japan
  • Facing North Korean Threat, Japan Accelerates Remilitarization
JULY
  • Japan Uses G-20 to Improve Relations With China, Russia
MAY
  • The Time Is Ripe to Amend Japan’s Pacifist Constitution
APR
  • The Best Excuse for an Offense Is a Good Defense
MAR
  • Japan to Dispatch Largest Warship in Boldest Show of Military Force Since World War II
  • Japan Opens Door to Third Term for Prime Minister Shinzō Abe
  • The Cryptic Nationalist Group Steering Japan
JAN
  • Japan’s Abe Visits Pearl Harbor in Historic First
2016
DEC
  • Japan Increases Its Military Spending Again
NOV
  • Japan Deploys Soldiers Authorized to Use Force for First Time Since World War II
JUNE
  • Hiroshima and America’s Dangerous Amnesia
MAY
  • Japanese PM Wholeheartedly Welcomes President Obama’s Visit to Hiroshima
2015
MAY
  • In Dangerous Departure From Pacifism, Japan Revises Defense Guidelines
FEB
  • Will World War II Finally End for Russia and Japan?
2014
DEC
  • Would MacArthur Support Japan’s Moves Toward Constitutional Revision?
JULY
  • Does Japan’s Historic Constitutional Change Mean Its Military Secret Will Soon Come Out?
2013
DEC
  • Is Japan’s Military Secret About to Come Out?
MAY
  • Web Exclusive: Japan Wants Military—U.S. Yawns, Ignores History
  • Japanese Defense—Going Nuclear?
2010
FEB
  • Rising in the East
2006
JAN
  • Japan’s Constitution Makeover
2003
MAY
  • A Nuclear Japan?
JAN
  • 2002: The Real Stories
2002
JAN
  • Last Hour’s First Minutes
  • March Toward Armageddon
2001
DEC
  • Japan’s Long History of Militarism
  • America’s Decreased Involvement
  • Made in Japan
SEPT
  • Angering Asia
JULY
  • Asia’s Power Game
JUNE
  • Rising Sun to Rise Again
2000
DEC
  • The Italy of Asia
FEB
  • The Coming Alliance
1999
SEPT
  • On the Rebound
AUG
  • Watch North Korea
JUNE
  • Asian Realignment
1998
MAR
  • Japan—What Does the Future Hold?
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