In a speech in Washington in September 2011, Democratic Party of Japan Policy Research Committee Chair Maehara Seiji spoke about the need for the Japanese defense industry to take on a role in the ...

Japan's defense minister has foreshadowed the possibility of changes to the country's principles on the transfer of defense equipment abroad, in order to support countries such as Ukraine, which are ...

The core philosophy underlying Japan’s basic policy principles concerning arms exports is that as a nation whose Constitution upholds pacifism it should not export arms that fuel international ...

The Government of Japan has been dealing carefully with "arms" exports in accordance with the policy guideline named Three Principles on Arms Exports (hereinafter referred to as "the Three Principles" ...

Implementation Guidelines for the Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology (decided by the National Security Council [NSC] on April 1, 2014) require the Ministry of Economy, ...

At a meeting on April 10 between Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko and his visiting British counterpart, David Cameron, the two leaders agreed that Japan and Britain would work on joint development of ...