Japan to Sell More Weapons Abroad, Breaking With Postwar Pacifism

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reversed limits on arms exports as Japan faces rising threats from China and unpredictability ...

Sun sets on Japanese pacifism with lifting of military trade ban

Japan is to lift a postwar ban on weapons exports this week as it moves away from a pacifist stance that has defined defence ...
Military.com

Project Hula: The US Secretly Armed the Soviet Union to Invade Japan in WWII

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...
Malay Mail

Japan’s Takaichi continues tradition of Yasukuni war shrine offerings despite regional tensions

Japanese premier Sanae Takaichi sent a ritual offering to a shrine honouring the country’s war dead on Tuesday that has long ...

Japan wanted inflation and Iran war could grant that wish. But it's not the type Tokyo desires

The Iran war is pushing up "cost-push" inflation in Japan as opposed to the "demand-pull" inflation the BOJ seeks.