... is based on radar systems and a satellite constellation. Within the Pacific in particular, fixed stations are deployed in California and the Aleutian Islands, while mobile radars on floating platforms are deployed in the Marshall Islands and bases in Japan.
Since 2004, the United States has
deployed
44 GBI (ground-based interceptor) missiles at Fort Greely (Alaska) and Vandenberg (California) air bases as part of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program. For all that, in a series of 18 tests between ...
Washington intends to cash in on the topic of alleged military-technological cooperation between Russia and the DPRK or China and the DPRK, in order to build anti-Russian and anti-Chinese sentiments in the Republic of Korea and Japan
In foreign media and academic articles, they increasingly often refer to a “Beijing-Moscow-Pyongyang axis” that is emerging in Northeast Asia (NEA). Under these circumstances, Western authors believe, the U.S. and its main Pacific allies, ...
The growing US-Japanese-South Korean military cooperation inevitably leads to stronger China-Russia-North Korea ties
The Russian-North Korean negotiations this month have provoked a lot of hype, particularly in the West. It is assumed by the West that North Korean ...
Japan is considered the third-largest economy in the world and a highly developed free-market economy. From the European contact in the 16th century to the Abenomics age, Japan has experienced fluctuations from rapid economic growth to the economic bubble ...
The future of Japan cannot be based only on its partnerships with the US and NATO, as important as this partnership is for Tokyo. This future also depends on Japan's relations to its Eurasian neighbors
The recent international tour of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio ...
On September 29, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with a group of Japanese diplomats at the Residence of Japan’s Ambassador to Russia
On September 29, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with a group of Japanese diplomats at the Residence of Japan’s Ambassador to Russia.
The following issues ...
On September 13, 2022, with the assistance of the Japanese Embassy in Russia, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, held another online briefing for a group of Japanese international affairs experts on topical issues of Russian foreign policy and the development of the world order against the backdrop ...
Essentially, Japan’s government looks like it obediently complies with the decisions made by its allies in the West, but it is at the same time solving strictly practical tasks without jeopardizing its own energy security
On August 10, 2022, Japan’s cabinet,...
... limits and purpose of expanding the organization’s areas of activity
The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid can be seen as a momentous occasion not just for NATO but also for security in the Asia-Pacific. For the first time in NATO’s 73-year-long history, Japanese and South Korean leaders participated in the meeting as “Asia-Pacific partners”. For the first time, the Alliance named China a threat in their documents. However, having approached the
hic sunt dracones
(here be dragons) mark, NATO and ...
On July 19, 2022, at the Residence of the Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Feodor Voitolovsky, RIAC Member, Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Yoshiyuki Yamada, Director of Russia Division ...
