The Japan Conference is shaping public opinion using grassroots methods, in tandem with PM Shinzo Abe’s strategy.

A Japanese shipyard has launched a new minesweeper for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Japanese militarism was buried for good in August 1945 and likely will not rise again.

With the 60-day rule, the Diet juggles technicalities and the LDP presses forward its bill reinterpreting Article 9.

The region should welcome greater engagement by democratic Japan.

The Philippines is seeking to indirectly link its territorial problems with Japanese normalization.

In the East Asian regional context, Japan’s changing security posture is not the force for peace Tokyo claims it is.

To play a productive role in a tense neighborhood, Tokyo needs to look beyond constitutional interpretations.

Though left unsaid, a Chinese invasion of Taiwan figured prominently into Tokyo’s reinterpretation of Article 9.

One civil society group in Japan is campaigning to have Article 9 of the Constitution win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Is Beijing correctly weighing the risks and gains in its negotiations with Japan over the disputed islands?