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Post by Daniel on May 19, 2015 9:59:46 GMT -5
Japan Begins to Walk the Walk on Defense Reform
by Michael Auslin May 19, 2015
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, fresh off a successful official visit to the United States, where he focused largely on security issues, has returned home to follow through on longstanding promises to submit crucial defense-reform legislation to the Japanese Diet. Last Thursday, his cabinet adopted two security bills that will now be put before Japan’s legislators. According to the Japan Times,
one of the two bills would amend 10 security-related laws, removing some restrictions on SDF operations. One of the revisions would allow Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense, or the right to come to the aid of a friendly nation under attack. . . . The second bill would create a permanent law allowing the government to dispatch the SDF overseas to provide logistics support to a foreign force engaged in armed combat.
While maintaining tight restrictions on when collective self-defense can be invoked, and limiting the general law on deployment to logistics support, the bills nevertheless are a significant move toward normalizing the activities of the Self-Defense Forces. They will open up new areas of cooperation, while making it easier for Japan to discuss common operations with its allies.
Read more at: www.nationalreview.com/article/418563/japan-begins-walk-walk-defense-reform-michael-auslin
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Post by sevenofnine on May 19, 2015 11:02:06 GMT -5
I thought they already have defense his name is Godzilla seriously
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Post by Daniel on May 26, 2015 10:50:19 GMT -5
Japan to join US-Aussi military drills in July
May 26, 2015 / RTNews
Japan will join US and Australian troops in trilateral military drills for the first time as the three states are seeking to boost ties in the region where tensions over the disputed South China Sea region rumble on.
“Japan will join a major US-Australian military exercise for the first time in a sign of growing security links between the three countries as tensions fester over China's island building in the South China Sea,” according to a statement on the Talisman Sabre biennial exercises’ official Facebook account.
Only 40 Japanese officers and soldiers will participate in the exercises, which overall involve about 30,000 US and Australian troops.
A spokesman from Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) confirmed to AFP that the Japanese military will take part in joint exercises “with the US Marines, rather than operating directly with the Australian military.”
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rt.com/news/262049-japan-us-australia-military/
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Post by sevenofnine on May 26, 2015 10:58:58 GMT -5
Question what code word for this
Godzilla or that name taken already
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Post by Daniel on May 26, 2015 11:12:50 GMT -5
Well, all I can comment is that RT (Russian propaganda) seems to be very interested in whatever Japan is doing.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 28, 2016 11:01:20 GMT -5
Japan opens radar station close to disputed isles, drawing angry China response
By Nobuhiro Kubo and Tim Kelly
Mar 28, 2016
Japan on Monday switched on a radar station in the East China Sea, giving it a permanent intelligence gathering post close to Taiwan and a group of islands disputed by Japan and China, drawing an angry response from Beijing.
The new Self Defence Force base on the island of Yonaguni is at the western extreme of a string of Japanese islands in the East China Sea, 150 km (90 miles) south of the disputed islands known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
China has raised concerns with its neighbors and in the West with its assertive claim to most of the South China Sea where the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims. Japan has long been mired in a territorial dispute with China over the East China Sea islands.
"Until yesterday, there was no coastal observation unit west of the main Okinawa island. It was a vacuum we needed to fill," said Daigo Shiomitsu, a Ground Self Defence Force lieutenant colonel who commands the new base on Yonaguni.
"It means we can keep watch on territory surrounding Japan and respond to all situations."
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www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-china-eastchinasea-idUSKCN0WT0QZ
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Post by Daniel on Apr 3, 2016 12:51:21 GMT -5
Japan sub makes first call to Philippines in 15 years amid China tensions
By Peter Blaza
Apr 3, 2016
A Japanese submarine made a port call in the Philippines, the first in 15 years, on Sunday in a show of growing military cooperation amid tension triggered by China's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea.
One of the newest and largest submarines in the Japanese navy, it was escorted into the former U.S. Navy Base at Subic Bay by two Japanese destroyers on a tour of Southeast Asia.
"This is just an exercise and the main objective is to train the officers," Captain Hiraoki Yoshino of Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force told reporters.
"We don't have any message to any country," he said, adding the ship visits were aimed at boosting confidence between the Japan and the Philippines.
China claims almost all the South China Sea, where about $5 trillion of ship-borne trade passes every year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan also have claims.
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www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-philippines-japan-idUSKCN0X009G
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Post by Daniel on Aug 8, 2016 17:26:03 GMT -5
Japan urges China not to escalate East China Sea tension
By Kaori Kaneko
Aug 8, 2016
Japan said on Monday it would respond firmly after Chinese government vessels intruded into what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea 14 times at the weekend.
Ties between China and Japan, the world's second and third largest economies, have for years been plagued by a dispute over the islands that Japan controls, and the waters around them.
The flurry of Chinese incursions into the waters follows a period of sustained pressure on China about its activities in the South China Sea, and a Chinese criticism of what it saw as Japanese interference in that dispute.
Chinese activity near the disputed East China Sea islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China, has heated up since Friday, Japanese officials said, prompting repeated Japanese protests, including three on Sunday alone.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Japan would urge China not to escalate the East China Sea dispute, while also responding firmly and calmly.
Agencies including the coastguard would act closely together to deal with the situation, Suga said.
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www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-china-idUSKCN10J08A
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Post by sevenofnine on Aug 8, 2016 20:31:54 GMT -5
That why KFI Brian Suits goof on Russia today I used get that Dish network not anymore since I have new Froniter Commuicaion I thought Al Jazeera America was biased LOL!
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Post by Daniel on Aug 31, 2016 18:12:18 GMT -5
Japanese military asks for record $50bn defense budget to oppose China, N. Korea
31 Aug, 2016 RTNews
Japan is poised to hike its defense spending again, breaking the record for the fifth year in a row. The money would boost Tokyo’s ability to oppose Beijing in the South China Sea and protect itself from a possible missile attack by North Korea.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet will require 5.17 trillion yen (US$50 billion) from parliament, the Japanese Defense Ministry announced Wednesday. If approved, it would translate into a 2.3 percent boost in the country’s defense spending. The Finance Ministry is yet to check the request before it is potentially sent to legislators.
One of the biggest portions of the military budget, about $1 billion, would go on upgrading Japan’s PAC-3 Patriot surface-to-air missile defense systems to increase range and accuracy for deployment in 2020, the submitted proposal stated.
The Japanese military also wants to develop a new submarine with advanced surveillance capabilities, work with the US on next-generation missile interceptors, station a 2,000-strong mobile amphibious unit near Nagasaki, and dispatch extra personnel in the Philippines and other Asian nations.
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www.rt.com/news/357776-japan-military-budget-record/
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Post by Daniel on Sept 14, 2016 18:46:50 GMT -5
Russia and China launch joint naval drill in South China Sea
Published on Sep 12, 2016
Russia and China are launching an eight-day naval exercise in the South China Sea on Monday. The drills will include anti-submarine warfare, vessel rescue, joint air defense, and taking an island with amphibious and airborne troops.
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Post by Daniel on Mar 16, 2017 9:03:25 GMT -5
China pledges firm response if Japan interferes in South China Sea
Mar 16, 2017
China on Thursday pledged a firm response if Japan stirs up trouble in the South China Sea, after Reuters reported on a Japanese plan to send its largest warship to the disputed waters.
The Izumo helicopter carrier, commissioned only two years ago, will make stops in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka before joining the Malabar joint naval exercise with Indian and U.S. naval vessels in the Indian Ocean in July, sources told Reuters.
The trip would be Japan's biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two.
"If Japan persists in taking wrong actions, and even considers military interventions that threaten China's sovereignty and security... then China will inevitably take firm responsive measures," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular press briefing.
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www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-navy-southchinasea-china-idUSKBN16N167
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