The activities at the 'junior survival school' involved primary and secondary schoolchildren being taught how to handle toy ...

TOKYO — Japan has made a significant policy change to allow it to get the ability to strike other nations, a move widely seen as a major step toward rearming the nation more than seven decades ...

Japan is rearming again, trying to tame China's ambitions to control the Asian-Pacific region while seeking independence from its long-time ally, the U.S. For decades, Japan stayed on the ...

who are worried over Japanese rearmament. In Manila, he assured Filipinos that a treaty would leave Japan “a bulwark against the new tide of despotism which threatens the Asia mainland.” ...

Just after Japan’s diet elected him prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, not sure he can wield real power or hold his job for long, is calling a snap election for all the seats in the diet’s lower house.

With deliberate Japanese-German irony this pact is not directed against the Soviet Union, only against Moscow’s Communism. Tokyo dispatches last week reported such high “Rearmament fever ...