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Japan Abandons its Three Basic Principles on Arms Exports
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

In response to the increase in the region’s geopolitical stress, Japan’s vulnerability has increased manifold. This has compelled the administration of Fumio Kishida to make some drastic change in the country’s security posture. The main driver....

January 04, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , South China Sea , NATO , Taiwan Strait , missile launches , Ukraine Crisis , collective self-defence , Three Basic Principles , weapons exports , peace clause in Jaoanese Constitution
North Korea’s ICBM Launch Worrying – Part II
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

Response from Japan
As an immediate neighbour, Japan was alarmed by North Korea’s missile launch. It was concerned as the missile landed about 125 miles from Japan’s coastline. In the preceding months, North Korea’s ballistic missile ....

December 05, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Komeito , Yoon Suk-yeol , collective self-defence , Mayu , Haguro , NDPG , missile defence system , JDP
A Befitting State Funeral for Abe but Fresh Challenges Confront Kishida
Prof Rajaram Panda Commentary

September 27, 2022 marked an important day in Japan’s history as Japan organised a state funeral to the slain former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo at the Nippon Budokan in central Tokyo. It may be recalled that Japan’s longest-servicing leader in pos....

October 03, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , collective self-defence , State funeral , insensitive China , Bukodan , Abenomics and Womenomics , Morimoto Gakuen , Kake Educational Institution , Shiugeru Yoshida
Tragic Departure of Abe: His Legacy Stays on Part – II
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

The assassination of Japan’s youngest and longest-serving Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, was not only a tremendous shock to Japan but to the rest of the world. This also serves a wake-up call for the Japanese government to review the security apparat....

July 14, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , QUAD , Article 9 , Yasukuni Shrine , Missile firing , collective self-defence , abduction issue , Senkaku dispute , security and policing , Abenomics.
Fresh Challenges for Kishida as Upper House Elections are held on 10 July
Prof Rajaram Panda Article

With less than a year in office, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida now confronts domestic political challenge when the country’s Upper House goes to the polls on 10 July in which his ruling coalition government expects to get a majority, which....

July 06, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Women empowerment , SDF , LDP , Article 9 , Komeito , Fumio Kishida , Upper House , declining birth rate , collective self-defence , Japan-US alliance
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