Defense minister talks are bigger than just India and Japan
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi’s visit to India on Thursday, August 20, 2026, could well mark the beginning…
Japan’s missile leap marks shift from defense to counterstrike
Japan’s successful Tomahawk and Upgraded Type-12 tests mark a decisive shift beyond interception-only defense toward a more assertive…
Japanese government bonds have a three-body problem
In May, the yield on Japan’s ten-year government bond touched 2.8%, its highest level in nearly three decades.…
Reading the air on being Japanese
As birth rates fall and countries turn to immigration to address their labor shortages, a lot of countries…
Bank of Japan rate hike greeted with a market shrug
TOKYO – Only in Japan can a central bank on its fifth rate hike in two years still…
Bank of Japan squeezed by Takaichi, Trump and Iran war inflation
Speaking on Wednesday (May 27), Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda cautioned that central banks must prevent this…
ULVAC to make rare earth melting furnaces in Japan
If you’ve been following the slow-motion strategic panic over critical minerals, you know that Japan, Australia, the US,…
EU-Japan joining hands to break China’s supply chain grip
This sharpening convergence was on full display in early May, when the EU and Japan convened the 7th…
US, Japan missile drills put Philippines in China’s line of fire
As US and Japanese missiles roar across Philippine skies, the Southeast Asian nation is becoming a forward-deployed missile…
Crunch time for Japan-Russia as energy and security collide
An oil tanker from the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas extraction project arrived at Taiyo Oil’s refinery at Imabari,…
Takaichi on a mission to remake Japan’s place in Asia
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is visiting Vietnam from May 1-3 and Australia from May 3-5, with energy…
Fujitsu at the core of Japan’s AI independence drive
Japanese computing and telecom company Fujitsu is aiming to develop an AI inference device that combines its own…