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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?
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2024
AUG
Historical First: Chinese Military Violates Japanese Air Space
JUNE
Japan to Build Advanced Antimissile Warship
APR
Japan’s Coming Betrayal of America
Japan Plans Military Upgrades
MAR
Japan to Sell Fighter Jets in Further Break From Postwar Pacifist Principles
U.S. and Japan to Strengthen Military Alliance
FEB
Japan Prepares Southeast Asian Maritime Support
JAN
Echoes of World War II—Japan and Germany Work Toward a Military Alliance
Japan to Expand Arsenal With 400 Tomahawk Missiles
2023
DEC
Report: Japan Destined to Obtain Nukes
Japan Approves Record Military Budget
SEPT
Japan Seeks Record Defense Budget for 2024
JULY
Japanese Military’s Role in World War II Mass Suicides Cut From Textbooks
APR
Japan to Develop Upgraded Submarine-Launched Missiles
MAR
Russia Deploys More Missile Systems to the North Pacific
FEB
North Korea Worries Japan With ‘Super-Large’ Rocket-Launcher Exercise
Japan’s Self-Defense Force to Undergo a ‘Significant Transformation’
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?