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Japan passes record defense budget, while still playing catch-up
Approved on Dec. 27, 2024, the upcoming defense budget beginning April 1 is up 9.4% to a record 8.7 trillion yen, the ...
Japan 'gravely concerned' about maritime tensions escalating, foreign minister says
Japan is gravely concerned about actions in the South China Sea that are raising tensions, and strongly opposes any ...
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Untold horrors: Japan's abandoned WWII biological warfare plot
At the end of World War II, the Japanese Unit 731 planned a biological attack on the USA. Tokyo had the technological ...
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Report provides look at why Japan went to war
In December 1941, Imperial Japan opened the Pacific theater of World War Two with two acts of stunning shortsightedness. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the near-simultaneous invasion of the Malay ...
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Japan Facing Most Complex Security Environment Since World War II, Warn Military Leaders
Japan’s military chiefs are warning that the country faces its most severe and complex security environment since World War ...
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75 years later, Japan’s second world war orphans talk about their pain and recovery
For years, orphans in Japan were punished just for surviving the war. They were bullied. They were called trash and left to fend for themselves on the street. Police rounded them up and threw them ...
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INTERVIEW/ Hal Brands: Conflict in the western Pacific could trigger the next global war
Just a war in the western Pacific would pose immense strains on ... where South Korea and Japan increasingly have defense programs that allow them to contribute significantly.