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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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's defense minister resigned on Tuesday over remarks that appeared to accept the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling camp ahead of a national election this month.
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Japan and Australia signed a groundbreaking defense pact on Tuesday that the leaders of both countries stressed was not aimed at reining in China, but the road ahead for a two-way trade deal looked rougher.
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Japan kept up the pressure on North Korea over its nuclear weapons and missiles and expressed concern about the lack of transparency on China's burgeoning military spending in a government defense paper published on Friday.
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Japan has decided to ease a blanket ban on arms exports to open the way for joint production of a new missile shield with the United States but says it will continue to refrain from most other weapons exports.
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North Korea&#39;s move to boost troop numbers around missile sites is probably a military exercise rather than preparation for a launch, a top Japanese official said Friday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's efforts to pass a bill to extend a naval mission supporting U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan hit another snag on Monday after revelations of fresh scandals involving the defense ministry.
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Japan has approved an overhaul of its military policy to take account of threats from China and North Korea and to allow defense exports to the United States.
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PARIS -- Fears are strong in Japan about China's rise as a military power, and negative feelings toward China among the Japanese have increased sharply over the past four years, a new international survey has found.
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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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HAGATNA, Guam  - Japan's increasing military role   was indicative of U.S. support for a continued U.S.-Japan   alliance, Richard Lawless, the U.S. deputy defense   undersecretary for Asian and Pacific Affairs, said on Tuesday.
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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'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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After almost 60 years of pacifism, Japan today overhauled its defence policy; easing an arms exports ban and singling out North Korea and China as security threats.
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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.