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Japan PM Says Iran War Oil Crisis Having 'Enormous Impact' in Asia Pacific
5/4/2026
Flame From Hiroshima Atomic Bombed Ruins To Be Installed at Pearl Harbor Ceremony
4/26/2026
Japan Lifts Ban on Lethal Weapons Exports in Major Shift of Pacifist Policy
4/21/2026
Is Japan's Treaty-Day Taiwan Strait Warship Transit a New Flashpoint With China?
4/20/2026
Australia and Japan Sign Contracts for $7 Billion Warships Deal
4/19/2026
Japan Plans $10 Billion Support To Help Asia Secure Oil: 'We Are Mutually Dependent'
4/15/2026
Japan Weighs Releasing More Oil Reserves as Hormuz Risks Persist
4/9/2026
Japan Aims To Boost Women Troops as It Struggles To Enlist
4/8/2026
First USAF F-35s Permanently Based in Japan Arrive at Misawa Air Base
4/1/2026
Japanese Destroyer Can Now Fire Tomahawk Missiles, Extending Nation's Combat Punch
3/30/2026
Iran Says It Will Allow Japanese Ships To Transit the Strait of Hormuz
3/21/2026
Surprise, Embarrassment, Unease in Japan After Trump Uses Pearl Harbor To Defend Iran War
3/21/2026
Hiroshima Survivor Who Spent Decades Investigating American POW Deaths Dies at 88
3/19/2026
Japan Industry Group Reassures Public on Toilet Paper Supply Amid Middle East Tensions
3/16/2026
Japan Begins Release of Oil Reserves as Iran War Sparks Energy Crisis
3/16/2026
Japan Sets High Bar for Sending Warships To Protect Gulf Oil Route
3/15/2026
China Urges Rejection of 'Japanese Neo-Militarism' as Tokyo Seeks To Ease Defense Equipment Exports
2/25/2026
Japan To Install Missiles Near Taiwan: Are China Tensions Set To Spike?
2/25/2026
Japan's Premier Seeks Breakthrough in Abduction Issue With North Korea
2/16/2026
Japan Seizure of Chinese Vessel, Arrest of Captain, Could Heighten Tensions
2/13/2026
Japanese Premier Takaichi Calls for Debate on Revising War-Renouncing Constitution After Securing Election Win
2/8/2026
Japan Deep-Sea Hunt Finds Rare Earths as It Seeks To Cut Reliance on China
2/2/2026
Japan PM Says US Alliance Would Collapse if Tokyo Ignored Taiwan Crisis
1/27/2026
Japanese American Soldiers Once Branded 'Enemy Aliens' To Be Promoted Posthumously
1/26/2026
Japan Audit Flags $7.1 Billion in Undelivered US Military Equipment After Five Years
1/26/2026
US Prepares Misawa Air Base in Japan for Stealth Jets
1/25/2026
1,500 US Marines and Japanese Troops To Train on First Island Chain Defense Next Month
1/21/2026
Japan Accuses US of Failing To Meet $6.9 Billion Arms Supply Deals
1/20/2026
Japan's PM Takaichi Will Dissolve Parliament, Call Snap Election
1/19/2026
Japan, Philippines Sign New Defense Pacts Amid Surging China Tensions
1/15/2026
Japan Sends Last Batch of Military Vehicles to Ukraine
1/14/2026
Japan Uses Robotic Dogs During Airborne Assault Drill
1/11/2026
China Bans Export of Dual-Use Items to Japan Amid Tensions Over Taiwan
1/7/2026
Families Tell Stories of Allied POWs in Nagasaki During the Atomic Bombing
12/31/2025
North Korea Says Japan's Nuclear Ambitions Must Be Stopped 'at Any Cost'
12/21/2025

Viewpoints

Are the Senkaku Islands Worth War Between China, Japan and America?
2/14/2017
US Military Returns Land to Japan, but Okinawa Isn't Celebrating
12/21/2016
American Fire Bombing and Atomic Bombing of Japan in History and Memory
12/1/2016
How John Hersey's Hiroshima Revealed the Horror of the Bomb
8/22/2016
Hiroshima: the Crime That Keeps on Paying, but Beware the Reckoning
8/5/2016
Can the Hiroshima Bombing Be Morally Justified?
6/8/2016
Conservatives Used to Criticize the Hiroshima Bombing
5/30/2016
Bombing Hiroshima Changed the World, but It Didn't End WWII
5/30/2016
The Disgrace of Obama's Hiroshima Visit Is the $1 Trillion the US Is Wasting on New Nukes, Not Just the Refusal to Apologize
5/27/2016
The Real Story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
5/26/2016
Apologize for Nagasaki
5/13/2016
Why Aren't Hiroshima and Nagasaki War Crimes?
5/12/2016
Why We Spy on the Japanese
8/20/2015
It's Clear the US Should Not Have Bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8/6/2015
Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki
8/5/2015
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and My Lai Were War Crimes
8/3/2015
70 Years After Hiroshima: Keeping Survivors' Tales Alive
8/3/2015
Japan Moves Ahead on the Military Path
5/18/2015
Japan's Top Hawk Calls for the US to End Hair-Trigger Alert
4/27/2015
Japan as a Vassal State in the American World Empire
9/29/2014
US Conservatives Are the Forgotten Critics of the Atomic Bombing of Japan
8/5/2014
Memories of Japan's War Victims, Victimizers
8/14/2013
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and 'Bomb Iran'
8/13/2013
Hiroshima's Legacy —the Obsolescence of War
8/9/2013
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the US Terror State
8/8/2013
Will Media Raise Key Questions About Hiroshima, and Nuclear Legacy, This Year?
7/24/2013
How US Economic Warfare Provoked Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor
12/7/2012
Say No to Tokyo
11/19/2012
The Japan Problem
11/14/2012
Osprey Outrage on Okinawa
11/5/2012
Strengthening Alliances in East Asia Is the Wrong Way to Go
10/3/2012
The New World Disorder
8/21/2012
Myth Versus Myth: Remembering Nagasaki
8/9/2012
Terrorism by Any Reasonable Definition
8/6/2012
Hiroshima Is a War Crime That Haunts My Family, 67 Years On
8/5/2012

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