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JAPAN: Tamogami stirs up debate
Toshio Tamogami, the retired Air Self Defense Force (ASDF) chief of staff at the centre of a...
JAPAN/US: Report points to alliance weaknesses
An American Enterprise Institute (AEI) report issued in December 2008 points to the continuing...
United StatesJAPAN/CHINA: Negotiation arrangements are finalised
Japan and China are now beginning to finalise arrangements for negotiations on a treaty to deal...
JAPAN: MOD announces end to cluster bomb procurement
Japan's Ministry of Defence (MOD) on November 28 announced that the Japan Self-Defence Force...
JAPAN: MOD announces ASDF withdrawal
Japan's Ministry of Defence (MOD) on November 28 issued an order for the Japan Air Self Defence...
JAPAN: BMD test is successful
Japan is reported to have tested successfully its PAC-3 ballistic missile defence (BMD) system at...
JAPAN: APEC meetings affirm North Korea cooperation
Prime Minister Taro Aso met with US President George Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung...
JAPAN: Test failure undermines conventional defence
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has reported that the Maritime Self-Defence Force (MSDF) destroyer,...