US Military in Japan Weighs New CurfewsJOSEPH COLEMAN
Most service members at US military bases in Japan found guilty of sex crimes in recent years did not go to prison, according to internal Department of Defense documents. Instead, in a review of hundreds of cases filed in America’s largest overseas military installation, offenders were fin...
about half of them on Okinawa, whose strategic role is seen increasingly important for the Japan-U.S. military alliance in the face of growing tensions with China. Japan's southwestern shift of its own military also focuses heavily on Okinawa and its nearby isl...
including near Taiwan and in the South China Sea, as well as conducting large-scale drills with Philippine forces, including simulated island retaking. It is also upgrading its military bases in Japan, including for a new Marine Littoral Regiment...
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This is the reality of the US' alliances in Asia: they are not partnerships of equals, but instruments of US dominance. Japan, like Europe, is expected to follow Washington's lead on security — hosting US bases, aligning with NATO's expansion into Asia, and escalating military spending —...
Signed in Tokyo on 26 September by Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida and US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, the new Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) is said to be in line with the expanded role played by the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) since Tokyo enacted ...
Japan sees China as a regional security threat and worries about growing tensions surrounding Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its territory. Tokyo also is concerned about increasing cooperation between China and Russia and their joint military activities around Japan, including joint firing drills off ...
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He emphasized that the Japan-US alliance, as a product of the Cold War, should not target third parties, let alone harm the interests of third parties. Playing small-clique politics in the field of military security goes against the trend of the times and will ultimately backfire. ...