KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM / OCT. 15 Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force operate an armored ...

Japan has long restricted arms exports under the country's pacifist constitution, but has rapidly taken steps to deregulate amid rising regional and global tensions, especially from nearby China.

“Japan remains a pacifist country and always will be a pacifist country.” But Ken Jimbo, a professor at Keio University and managing director at the International House of Japan ...

This is another break with Japan's post-World War II pacifist principles, reports "AP". This controversial decision is ...

In a hugely significant policy shift for pacifist Japan, the government approved revisions that will allow for the export of finished weapons like Patriot missiles. The changes that got the nod ...

This documentary sheds light on the geopolitical upheavals in the Pacific region and on Japan’s history of pacifism since the second world war.

Japan's cabinet has approved the export of new fighter jets it is developing with the UK and Italy, in the latest move away from its pacifist policies. It eased arms export rules to allow the jets ...