Japan Soon Will Have More Aggressive Military by Reinterpreting Constitution ...

What the West Misses About China’s Nuclear Build-up A member of an honor guard supports the Japanese flag as it is raised during the medal ceremony for Yui Ohashi, of Japan, who won the gold medal in ...

Japan’s parliament laid the groundwork Monday for amending the country’s pacifist constitution, boosting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to give the armed forces a larger global role, but adding to ...

TOKYO (AP) ― Japan marked the 67th anniversary of its postwar constitution Saturday with growing debate over whether to revise the war-renouncing charter in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push ...

Last week the world remembered the end of the war in the Pacific, and Japan's surrender on what become known as V-J Day. But many Japanese have never really accepted the terms of that surrender, and ...

Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur, at their first meeting, at the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, 27 September, 1945. U.S. Army. The Japanese Occupation (1945-1951) On the morning of September 8, 1945, ...

This blog post is co-authored with Ayumi Teraoka, research associate for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and is part of a series entitled Will the Japanese Change Their Constitution?