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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Cabinet on Dec. 16 approved three national security documents that lay out the reasoning behind Japan’s move away from an exclusively defensive posture and for doubling defense spending.

Citing looming threats from China and North Korea, Japan has doubled its military expenditure. Tokyo will now focus on raising its counter-strike capabilities, according to the new policy.

On Tuesday, the ninth national memorial ceremony for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre was held as a solemn reminder of the calamity caused by militarism in Japan to not just the Chinese people, but people in other Asian countries, as Japans recent updates to its national security strategies, such as increasing military spending and referring to China as a

 

The Japanese government will vow in key security documents to be revised this month to acquire "counterstrike capability" but exclusively for defense purposes under the war-renouncing Constitution, a government source said on Dec. 9.

Japan, Italy and the United Kingdom, on Friday, announced a joint collaboration to develop a next-generation fighter aircraft by 2035. The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) will merge the U.K.-led Future Air Combat System (FACS) –also known as “ Tempest” – that includes Italy as a participant with the Japanese F-X program. The United States […]

Japan is considering describing Chinese military moves as posing a "challenge" to the international order, as well as to Japan and like-minded countries, in its National Security Strategy to be revised together with two other security-related documents next week, a government source says.

The long-debated move comes alongside increased defense spending amid worries about Japan’s security environment.

Japan’s strike capability debate must be accompanied by the political will of decision-makers.

To bolster the nations defenses against cyberattacks, the government plans to add an