In mid-April, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released its Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, its most important guidebook on international affairs. Japan’s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, wrote the foreword, which begins: “The world is now at a turning point in...
By John Laforge
It’s now 10 years since the catastrophic triple meltdowns of reactors at Fukushima in Japan. As Joseph Mangano of the Radiation and Public Health project put it three years ago, “Enormous amounts of radioactive chemicals, including cesium,...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government has approved three security documents—the National Security Strategy (NSS), the National Defense Strategy, and the Defense Construction Program—to strengthen Japan's defense capabilities. Japan is amid an increasingly volatile security environment. The Japanese government has...
