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Helicopter Markets Steady in East Asia
Here’s another recent piece for Defense News, thanks again to Wendell Minnick … more →
Japan Space Policy
Helicopter Markets Steady in East Asia
wrote 1 week ago: Here’s another recent piece for Defense News, thanks again to Wendell Minnick … more →
Japan Inches Toward Arms Exports
wrote 1 week ago: Here’s a scoop I got last year, made front page. In In Defense of Japan we largely built on th … more →
Catching up again
wrote 1 week ago: After a long discussion with Ito san recently, this is a priority for Japan. Here is an ancient sto … more →
自衛隊も宇宙利用へ: Japanese Journalism on EW
wrote 6 months ago: Here is an insight into how Japanese journalists (with many honorable exceptions) over the issues. … more →
JSP Catchup #9: In Asia, C4ISR Market Is Growing
wrote 6 months ago: Ahem, just after writing JSP Catchup #8, I have to issue a mea culpa as colleague Wendell Minnick as … more →
JSP Catchup #8: Japan To Boost Missile Warning, Other Surveillance Efforts
wrote 6 months ago: Here is a story that Space News asked me to write for their Military Space Quarterly, so it gave me … more →
JSP Catchup #7: Japan Still Calculating Cost of Defense Firm’s Padded Bills
wrote 6 months ago: Here is the follow-up to JSP Catchup #6: Probe Uncovers 40-year Japanese Contractor Fraud and a full … more →
JSP Catchup #4: U.S., Japan Strengthen Ties Through Panetta Visit
wrote 6 months ago: After a long talk with an old SAIS buddy of mine, we came to the conclusion that China has blown it; … more →
JSP Catchup #3: Japan's Budget Request Targets Capabilities To Defend Sea Lanes
wrote 6 months ago: Here is a follow-up from the previous story with a little more analysis, which was published by Defe … more →
Catchup #2 Japan’s Defense Budget Request Down 1.7 Percent
wrote 6 months ago: Here is a basic story on Japan’s defense budget request for next year for Defense News. Of co … more →
MV-22 Osprey One Crash from U.S.-Japan Alliance Disaster?
wrote 10 months ago: Lots and lots have been written about the running sore on U.S.-Japan alliance issues that is Futenma … more →
Tough Choices Ahead for Japan's F-XX Procurement
wrote 10 months ago: Defense News has just published a story that I did last week on the post F-35 choices Japan faces fo … more →
Japan's Defense Industrial Base Nearing Crisis
wrote 11 months ago: I haven’t been doing much work for the media recently as I focus on research but Defense News … more →
Details Scant on Anglo-Japan Defense Cooperation
wrote 1 year ago: Japan’s leading daily, the Yomiuri Shimbun, has a long editorial (see Japanese-British securit … more →
As Predicted: N. Korea preparing for third nuclear test...
wrote 1 year ago: As I predicted on this blog back on March 16 (Taepodon Trigger #3: DPRK to attempt 3rd Satellite Sho … more →
UK-Japan Defense Deal Coming Soon!
wrote 1 year ago: This story was prompted by leaks in the UK so I was drafted in to make comments in the middle of la … more →
Update: Some Interesting Media on Upcoming DPRK launch
wrote 1 year ago: Amongst the dross and hysteria about Japan “preparing to intercept” his month’s No … more →
Japan Begins Building Technology Demonstrator Fighter Shinshin
wrote 1 year ago: As one commentator on my story said, by the time the the F-35 is perfected and the Shinshin is flyin … more →
Taepodon Trigger#3: U.S. Knew of DPRK Plan Last Dec.
wrote 1 year ago: The plot thickens. As I pointed out in my original blog, all is not what it seems in the conventiona … more →
