Overhauling Article 9?
A legacy of its retreat from militancy after World War II, Japan’s constitution, with the two-paragraph Article 9, renounces war and promises to never maintain land, sea and . . . 本文を読む
Tensions escalate
The most obvious sign of Japan’s new security concerns came two years ago, under then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan, when the country overhauled its defense strategy, turning its atte . . . 本文を読む
Japan’s shift can be seen in an increasingly muscular role for the nation’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF), in a push among mainstream politicians to revise key portions of the pacifist constitution and . . . 本文を読む
下記拙稿に引き続き、「右傾化する日本」という切り口から現下の日本をレポートしたアメリカ有力紙の報道を紹介します。出典は、"With China’s rise, Japan shifts to the right"（The Washington Post, September 21, 2012）、而して、記事タイトルの意味は「支那の興隆に押され右傾化する日本」あるいは「拡大する中国の影に . . . 本文を読む