Japan Defense Policy Breaks Cautiously with Past
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Japan unveiled a revamped defense policy on Friday that eases a decades-old ban on arms exports and, in carefully couched words, suggests a shift from the purely
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Japan's Defense Minister said on Sunday  Japan may have to consider negotiating changes in the agreement  that governs the status of U.S. forces in Japan following a  dispute over the management of a U.S. helicopter crash in the  southern prefecture of Okinawa earlier this month.
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As his defense minister resigns over his comments on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of creating a more muscular Japan looks lost
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The Japanese government today published a new defence plan, which prepares the way for a transition from the country&#39;s longstanding passive defence of its own territory
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Japan eased a blanket ban on arms exports  on Friday to open the way for joint production of a new missile  shield with the United States, but said it would still refrain  from most other weapons exports.
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TOKYO: Japan took another step away from its post-World War II pacifism on Friday by ending its decades-old ban on military exports and telling defense planners to regard China and North Korea as potential threats.
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The US and Japan have signed a new agreement on missile defense programs. It&#39;s considered a key step in carrying out new defense guidelines that ease Tokyo&#39;s pacifist stance, which is outlined in its constitution.
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Japan is blurring the line between defensive and offensive military power in spite of its pacifist Constitution, rattling nerves in northeast Asia.
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Japan eased a blanket ban on arms exports on Friday to open the way for joint production of a new missile shield with the United States, but said it would still refrain from most other weapons exports.
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Japan's first female defense minister was sworn in Wednesday, pledging to restore trust in the government after her predecessor resigned for suggesting the U.S. atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were inevitable.
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Japan took a significant step away from the pacifism enshrined in its constitution yesterday when it announced new defence guidelines for the first time in nearly a decade.
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China has voiced concern over Japan&#39;s overhaul of defence policy that eased a decades-old ban on arms exports and suggested a shift from a defensive posture.
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The Bush administration is closely watching whether Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation will hurt Japanese cooperation in U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan.
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TOKYO - The beheading of a Japanese hostage and the closely fought US presidential election have injected new caution into Tokyoâs deliberations on whether to extend its historic troop dispatch to Iraq.
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Top Japanese officials on Tuesday  deplored the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S.  Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with  echoes of a 1995 incident that jolted the U.S.-Japan security  alliance.
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Japan is to tighten security at its military camp in Iraq after a rocket shell landed inside the facility, the latest sign of a worsening security situation that is fuelling demands in Japan that the troops be pulled out.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, right, on board a patrol boat off the Hokkaido coast. Picture:Reuters. Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has defied Russian objections to sail