Tag: Japan

This article was originally posted as part of the Atlas Newsletter. The Atlas Newsletter is a weekly journal released every Monday, highlighting the major events of the previous week in brief detail. Subscribe for free here.  The Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the Republic of Korea met...

The U.S. Marine Corps is reconfiguring one of its Okinawa, Japan-based regiments into a new force design that could prove useful in a potential future war with China for control of the Indo-Pacific region. On Wednesday, the Marine Corps announced its plans to convert the existing 12th Marine Regiment in...

A joint statement between the United States and Japan released today highlighted cooperation between the two countries, saying that “cooperation today is unprecedented, rooted in our shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific and a peaceful and prosperous world, guided by our shared values including the rule of...

Japanese media has reported on the government announcement of the JPT 5T Plan, which outlines the purchase and integration of standoff defensive weapons to ensure the security of the Nansei Islands. This plan will focus on developing and purchasing "standoff defense capability" weapons, unmanned aerial, surface, and subsurface vehicles, and...

At approximately 1900 EST, North Korea fired about 170 artillery shells into the 2018 Buffer Zone. 130 shells were fired into the Yellow Sea and 40 were fired into the Sea of Japan. This is in addition to the aircraft deployment and ballistic missile launch earlier today. South Korea has...

In response to comments by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last month calling Russia a nuclear threat and stressing the importance of maintaining and strengthening the NPT (Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation Treaty), Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that the United States and its allies “are dangerously balancing on the...