Tokyo Review
Security
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1.6KJapan’s National Security Secretariat, Four Years On
On December 4, 2013, Japan’s National Security Council (NSC) convened for the first time. Certainly, the NSC has been an active security...
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1.6KRelevance Despite Obscurity: Japan and UN Command
On January 16, Canada hosted the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability of the Korean Peninsula. There, representatives from 20 nations...
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1.2KRefocusing the Debate on Japan’s Defense Reform
Major change is afoot in Ichigaya, the Tokyo neighborhood that contains the Japanese Ministry of Defense, in recent weeks; or at least...
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1.0KAviation Incidents: A Primer
On January 9, Japan’s Minister of Defense Itsunori Onodera called his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and talked about two...
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1.2KJapan’s Security Legislation Turns Two
Two years after the passage of Japan's 2015 Peace and Security Legislation, how has the deeply controversial bill actually been implemented in...
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1.3KShooting Down DPRK Missile Tests Won’t Work
The do-something faction of the U.S. foreign policy commentariat has worked itself into a tizzy over the North Korean missile threat. Recent...
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932What Does North Korea Want?
Missile and nuclear tests by North Korea are met with fury and disbelief in Japan and the US; but Kim Jong Un...
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1.3KNorth Korea: Decoupling the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Tension over North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs recently took a startlingly intimate turn for residents of Japan’s northernmost prefectures, who were...
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1.2KIran, Trump, and Japan’s Security
If you live in Japan and turned on your TV around 6:00am last Tuesday morning, instead of the typical peppy morning news show,...
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1.5KJapan’s Maritime Strategy and the Dynamics of Denial
To paraphrase a political science aphorism, where a nation sits geographically is where it stands strategically. As an archipelago stretching over thousands...