Before the confetti hit the floor on New Year’s 2015, people have been looking to August 15 and speculating how Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would handle the seventieth anniversary of the end of World[…]
Evolution, not revolution, in Japanese security
While the world’s attentions were fixed on Greece and Iran, an important development in East Asia’s unfolding security competition slipped by. Japan’s lower house voted to approve two security bills that will enable Japanese troops,[…]
Big deal or big bore?
During Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Washington last week the two governments announced the revision of the Defense Guidelines. The Guidelines provide a framework for military cooperation within the US-Japan alliance; they were[…]