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140306-N-ZU025-204OKINAWA, Japan (March 6, 2014) Marines assigned to Company F, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) conduct launch and recovery operations with combat rubber raiding craft from the well deck of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver (LPD 9). Denver is assigned to the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group and is conducting operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Todd C. Behrman/Released)

Japan, Northeast Asia, United States, World

Is Tokyo stiffing Washington on defense payments?

by Grant Newsham January 28, 2020February 18, 2020

Want to infuriate a Japanese politician? Tell him Japan must spend more on defense. Want to see incandescent rage? Tell him to spend more on US forces in Japan. US President Donald Trump has done exactly that, declaring the $2 billion Japan spends on “host nation support” inadequate. Last summer, he reportedly instructed his national […]

An Izumo-class ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force arrives at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 18, 2018. Photo: AFP/Andrew Lotulung/NurPhoto

China, Japan, Northeast Asia, World

Japan’s new aircraft carriers fail to make waves

by Grant Newsham December 13, 2018February 18, 2020

The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers conducting an exercise in the Philippine Sea in February 2018. Photo: US Navy via AFP

AT Finance, Australia, Beijing, China, Israel, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, World

With China absent from RIMPAC 2018, Japan tests ship-kill capabilities

by Peter J. Brown July 24, 2018February 18, 2020

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