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Self-Defense Forces
![Preliminary Lessons From Japan’s Security Debate Preliminary Lessons From Japan’s Security Debate](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-07-24_14-08-44.jpg)
Preliminary Lessons From Japan’s Security Debate
By Robert Dujarric
“There is a lot more continuity than discontinuity in Japanese defense policy.”
![To Shoot or Not to Shoot?: Japanese Legislators Debate SDF Weapons Use To Shoot or Not to Shoot?: Japanese Legislators Debate SDF Weapons Use](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-01-14_08-59-32.jpg)
To Shoot or Not to Shoot?: Japanese Legislators Debate SDF Weapons Use
By Ankit Panda
Japanese lawmakers in the ruling coalition are debating the merits of allowing greater weapons use by the Japanese military.
![Japan: Balancing Defense With History Japan: Balancing Defense With History](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-06-23_12-09-38.jpg)
Japan: Balancing Defense With History
By Daniel Clausen
The country needs a leader who is a conservative on defense and a progressive on history.
![Japan Mulling Lifting Defense Export Ban: 'Proactive Pacifism' In Action? Japan Mulling Lifting Defense Export Ban: 'Proactive Pacifism' In Action?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sizes/thumbnail/7217_5243b3e2266d8.jpg)
Japan Mulling Lifting Defense Export Ban: 'Proactive Pacifism' In Action?
By Ankit Panda
Shinzo Abe and the LDP are out to remove Japan's ban on defense exports. Is this "proactive pacifism" or something else?
![Japan Mulls Aircraft Carrier Future? Japan Mulls Aircraft Carrier Future?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2014-01-14_20-44-02.jpg)
Japan Mulls Aircraft Carrier Future?
By Zachary Keck
Japan will reportedly fly surveillance drones from its destroyers as a possible prelude to building aircraft carriers.
![How Japan’s Military Should Change How Japan’s Military Should Change](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/sizes/thumbnail/5966_5243aa78c57c9.jpg)
How Japan’s Military Should Change
“Providing the best defense possible while affronting the fewest audiences possible should be Tokyo’s goal.”
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