Declassified archives reveal the immense strategic gamble behind the invasion of Saipan, a island Japan considered sacred ...
Faced with the nightmare of a direct assault on the heavily fortified Japanese stronghold of Rabaul, U.S. strategists devised ...
The United States launched a massive invasion of the Japanese home island of Okinawa, with an initial landing of 60,000 soldiers and marines, on this day in history, April 1, 1945. The Battle of ...
The Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) will procure the next generation of Japanese anti-landing craft missiles next year as ...
Quick to impose economic and financial sanctions on Russia following that country's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Japan has also resisted fully breaking ties. The Russian invasion has also ...
It has banned some Japanese imports, cancelled trade talks and is threatening further countermeasures if Tokyo does not ...
At the start of 2022, during his policy address to the Diet Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio introduced the concept of “diplomacy anchored in realism for the new era” as the guiding principle of ...