On June 15, Defense Minister Taro Kono announced a suspension of the deployment of the Aegis Ashore missile interception system—a suspension that ten days later became a cancellation. The progression from deciding to deploy Aegis Ashore, to cancelling it, to considering alternatives, reveals policy formation fraught with dysfunction.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the first half of January 2020.
Two helicopter crashes in Okinawa, thirteen years apart, have led to changes in the protocol for responding to such incidents. But as with the first set of changes, this year’s revision may still allow the US military to essentially do as it pleases.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the second week of June 2019.
Commandant of the Marine Corps General Robert Neller upset many Okinawans last year when he falsified the history of the contentious Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on November 15, 2018.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on September 23, 2018.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on July 23, 2018.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on July 16, 2018.
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported on May 31, 2018.
