Tag: Japan

Japanese media has reported on the government announcement of the JPT 5T Plan, which outlines the purchase and integration of standoff defensive weapons to ensure the security of the Nansei Islands. This plan will focus on developing and purchasing "standoff defense capability" weapons, unmanned aerial, surface, and subsurface vehicles, and...

At approximately 1900 EST, North Korea fired about 170 artillery shells into the 2018 Buffer Zone. 130 shells were fired into the Yellow Sea and 40 were fired into the Sea of Japan. This is in addition to the aircraft deployment and ballistic missile launch earlier today. South Korea has...

In response to comments by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last month calling Russia a nuclear threat and stressing the importance of maintaining and strengthening the NPT (Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation Treaty), Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that the United States and its allies “are dangerously balancing on the...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe has been shot multiple times by a Maritime SDF soldier after giving a speech in Nara, Japan campaigning for a parliamentary election. From photos and videos of the incident it appears the weapon used to shoot him was an improvised makeshift sawed off shotgun....

Japan's Foreign Ministry, in its annual diplomacy report "Blue Book" reportedly labeled the southern part of the Kuril Islands as "illegally occupied" by Russia. An official publication of the document is expected in the coming days, Kyodo news agency reported. Known in Japan as the Northern Territories this is...

The associated press has reported North Korea fired a “ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday, its neighbors said, in a resumption of weapons tests that came as the United States and its allies are focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” The missile testing was the “eighth of its...