Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

The Japan Self-Defense Force has missed its recruitment goal for the last several years and is struggling to meet those goals ...

Leaders of the European Union and Japan have launched an alliance aimed at boosting economic cooperation, defending free ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba wants to separate negotiations on tough U.S. tariffs from security-related discussions — but disentangling the two will prove a challenge as U.S. President Donald ...

This report is part of Strategic Japan, a CSIS Japan Chair initiative featuring analysis by Japan’s leading foreign policy scholars on key regional and global challenges and the implications for the U ...

Japan and ASEAN deepen ties as security, ... and the free and open international order based on the rule of law is under serious challenge," Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in his ...

China and Japan agreed Wednesday to set up talks on often contentious security issues as they seek to improve a relationship riven in recent years by a range of issues, from territorial disputes ...

General Sadamasa Oue (Ret.) is Senior Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center and associate at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs' Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, ...

Japan and Taiwan can play an important role in areas related to economic security, from supply chain resiliency to safeguarding advanced technologies that could be utilized for national security ...

Sustaining a Fragile Recovery . Japan’s economic rebound from the pandemic-induced contraction has been modest and uneven. Real GDP has grown in fits and starts since the sharp 2020 collapse ...

What possible relation, one might ask, can spas, online food delivery services and local supermarkets bear to national security? Indeed, the Finance Ministry’s recent announcement that 2,102 ...

With Security Challenges Looming, Time for Japan to Step Up. November 13, 2015. By: Roger Cliff. ... “Japan’s Security Role and Capabilities In the 2020s,” will be released on November 13.