Can Japan send the SDF to Hormuz? The key will be how Tokyo classifies the current situation – but that is complicated by the conflict’s origin in a preemptive U.S. attack. Arleigh Burke-class ...

Then-U.S. President George W. Bush shakes hands with then-Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro in the Rose Garden of the White House, Sep. 25, 2001. Credit: Official White House Photo by Tina ...

Large protests took place on Sunday throughout Japan against plans by the right-wing coalition government of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to water down Article 9—the so-called pacifist ...