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Amid growing geopolitical uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific and increasing threats from espionage and advanced forms of warfare, Japan is establishing its first centralized intelligence agency since World War II. Experts said the move is in accordance with Tokyo’s defense transformation under its 2022 National Security Strategy that is increasingly giving
China’s Bullying of Japan Backfires, Exposing Beijing’s Coercive Diplomacy: WSJ
On Dec. 2, "The Wall Street Journal" published a sharply-worded editorial titled: “The Lesson of China's...
Japan Ends Its Cautious China Policy Under PM Takaichi
Analysis by Yuan Shan Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, wasted no time making her foreign-policy...
Japan Tightens Path to Citizenship as Chinese Nationalists Face Rising Scrutiny
Japan is preparing a major overhaul of its naturalization and residency rules—changes that could dramatically...
Beijing’s Coercion Backfires, Boosting Japan’s Takaichi
By Yang Tianzi, Vision Times The People's Republic of China’s latest attempt to pressure Japan has...
Analysis: Beijing Miscalculates as Japan Draws a Red Line
From Nov. 16 to 18, East Asia witnessed a rapid and dramatic escalation that spread from the sea to diplomacy...
Suga Departing: Abe’s ‘Right Hand Man’ Leaves Japanese PM Office After One Year
When Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced in September that he would be stepping down, the...
Japan’s Suga Lifts COVID-19 State of Emergency
Noting that COVID-19 infections have significantly declined from their peak, the Japanese government...