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Japan Military Struggles With Harassment Despite Need For Women

Japan's military faces challenges with gender equality and harassment, hindering recruitment and retention of women. Efforts to address these issues are cr...

Top News · May 13, 2024

Factbox: What will Japan's military build-up look like?

Japan unveiled a new national security strategy on Friday along with details of its biggest military build-up since World War Two, in a marked shift away from the pacifism that has dominated its political discourse for seven decades.

Reuters · Dec 16, 2022

US and Philippine forces conduct live-fire coastal combat drills

Officials say the military drills are not directed at any country, though they come at a time of tension with China.

Al Jazeera · Oct 13, 2022

Japan hosts military symposium U.S. hopes will help contain China

Military commanders from Japan, the United States, South Korea, the Philippines and fourteen other countries met in Tokyo this week for a gathering that Washington hopes will help forge cooperation between nations that can help it contain China.

Reuters · Jun 16, 2022

Analysis-S.Korea's robust response to N.Korea seen aiding Japan's military push

South Korea's tougher stance towards the North under its new conservative president will be welcomed by Tokyo as Japan seeks to boost its military capabilities amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and more broadly in the region, analysts say.

Reuters · Jun 8, 2022

Japan's Okinawa may be on the front lines again as it marks anniversary of U.S. handover

Seihan Nakazato wants the missile trucks on the base next to his melon farm to leave, but few others on Okinawa's Miyako island, he complains, are demanding that Japan's army remove such weapons, which he says would make them a target for China.

Reuters · May 12, 2022