Japan advisers say U.S.-bound missiles should be hit
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should be prepared to shoot down ballistic missiles bound for the United States although this would relax its self-imposed ban on collective self-defense, or aiding an ally under attack, government advisers said on Friday. North Korea, which launched a Taepodong ballistic missile in 1998 that overflew Japan, is believed to have missiles capable of reaching the United States, Japan's closest security ally. Washington has made clear it would welcome an end to the collective self-defense ban. "There was overall consensus that it is absurd to have a legal system where Japan can't do anything," said Shinichi...
Published on Monday 14th of May 2012 04:13:52 AM
Unleash Japan - (time to solidfy a strong military alliance with Japan to counter China)
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Pacifism has never been so silly. In an East Asia that features both one of the world's most irrational states and a rising dictatorial power bent on changing the region's strategic balance, it is a crucial ally of the United States that labors under a constitution that could have been written by Quakers. As part of her tour of Asia this week, Secretary of State Condi Rice visited a Japan that is slowly emerging from its shell. It is one of the diplomatic triumphs of the Bush administration that it has helped accelerate this process. The ideal should be to...
Published on Monday 14th of May 2012 04:13:52 AM
Unconfirmed: Two Living, Ex-Japanese Soldiers Found in Philippines (Mindanao)
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<p>Just only a quick blurb in the top news segement today, but Mainichi News reports that two elderly Japanese men in their 80s have turned themselves into or otherwise presented themselves to Japanese authorities in the southern Philippines in Mindanao, apparantly "surrendering" or at least talking to them, after holding our for nearly 60 years in the Philippines following Japan's WWII defeat.</p>
Published on Monday 14th of May 2012 04:13:52 AM
New group of Japanese troops enter Iraq
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KUWAIT-IRAQ BORDER, March 20 (Reuters) - A new group of Japanese troops crossed into Iraq from Kuwait on Saturday to join countrymen serving as part of U.S.-led forces in Iraq, days after Spain said it plans to withdraw soldiers from the country. Some 130 Japanese troops rolled into Iraq in a convoy of about 50 trucks and armoured personnel carriers mounted with heavy machineguns. They were heading towards the city of Samawa in southern Iraq, where some 250 Japanese troops are building a base and conducting humanitarian operations. The deployment comes several days after Spain's Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez...
Published on Monday 14th of May 2012 04:13:52 AM
August 14, 1945 - Japan Surrenders, End of War!
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Published on Monday 14th of May 2012 04:13:52 AM
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