Japan needs to revisit the pacifist posture that has defined it since World War Two, Shinjiro Koizumi says.

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo’s ...

She was met with chants, “No to war” and “Protect Article 9“ of the pacifist Constitution that renounces war. Read more at ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy From left: Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Abe Toshiko, Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, Chinese Foreign ...

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Can Japan send the SDF to Hormuz? The key will be how Tokyo classifies the current situation – but that is complicated by the conflict’s origin in a preemptive U.S. attack. Arleigh Burke-class ...

ISHIBA SHIGERU’S time as Japan’s prime minister is coming to an end. His party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is in crisis: following the departure of its long-time coalition partner, it risks ...

Soon after the invention and mass adoption of airplanes, governments started used them for war. Suddenly, soldiers had to watch out for flying machines spraying hot lead and dropping bombs. However, ...

Demonstrators shouted slogans throughout the prime minister’s speech at a World War II memorial event in Okinawa.

Mr. Bass is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton and author of “Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia.” Seventy-five years ago, around the ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, ...

Last week we saw the Japanese launch a surprise attack on the Russians at Port Arthur and the early stages of the ensuing ...