Japan Press Weekly

(July 22 & 23, 2015)

SDF’s live bullet hits private house

(June 28, 2015)

SDF instructs its intelligence personnel to ‘neutralize’ citizens’ peace movements

(June 21, 2015)

SDF joins in military exercises in Mongolia ahead of PKO act revision

(June 14, 2015)

SDF hold military parade in shopping area despite local opposition

(June 6 and 9, 2015)

Okinawa JCP calls for halt to SDF aircraft use of Naha Airport

(May 28, 2015)

54 SDF members commit suicide after returning from abroad

(March 25, 2015)

GSDF presses its personnel to write ‘farewell notes’ in case of death to their families

(December 23, 2014)

SDF desperately trying to recruit high school students

(October 30, 2014)

JCP achieves removal of photos promoting SDF at public schools

(August 14, 2014)

Ex-student at GSDF tech high school sues classmates for bullying

(August 8, 2014)

Defense Academy student sues his upperclassmen for bullying

(June 7, 2014)

SDF secretly studied how to wage war abroad

(June 6, 2014)

SDF top officials in uniform attend ceremony at ‘Yasukuni’ in Hokkaido

(June 5, 2014)

SDF holds religious ceremony ignoring principle of separation between religion and state

(April 24, 2014)

Gov’t ordered to pay compensation for MSDF sailor’s suicide

(March 26, 2014)

Amphibious mobile regiment will be created in Sasebo

(January 17 & 19, 2014)

Peace groups protest against SDF warship’s fatal collision with fishing boat

(December 22, 2013)

Number of Japan-US joint military drills marks record high in 2012

(December 18, 2013)

JCP opposes government’s new defense policies

(December 4, 2013)

Secrets law could restrict investigations into SDF-related accidents

(December 6, 2013)

SDF daily monitors its members with foreign partners

(November 30, 2013)

Abe paves way to the dispatching of fully armed SDF abroad

(November 26, 2013)

SDF captain voices concern over gov’t secrets bill

(November 19, 2013)

Gov’t should end permanent use of SDF’s overseas base: JCP Inoue

(November 19, 2013)

Air SDF gives up exhibiting US Ospreys at its base festival

(October 30, 2013)

SDF training will raise tensions with China: JCP Akamine

(August 29, 2013)

PM Abe aims at further sending SDF troops abroad

(August 29, 2013)

SDF makes use of TV shows to improve its public image

(August 27, 2013)

DefMin says Japan should be able to attack enemy base

(August 26, 2013)

SDF fires at World Heritage site, Mt Fuji

(August 22 and 24, 2013)

Peace activists call for cancelation of Japan-US joint military drill using Ospreys

(August 15, 2013)

We will share info on SDF possession of poison gases with local residents: gov’t response to JCP Dietman

(July 26, 2013)

DefMin admits to mass production of deadly gases

(July 24, 2013)

SDF joins US military’s deployment exercise

(July 6, 2013)

SDF making poison gas in secret

(June 29, 2013)

SDF invasion drills with US forces under guise of ‘defending islets’

(June 12, 2013)

Maritime law again downplayed in lawsuit over MSDF Aegis crash killing 2 fishermen

(June 13, 2013)

Japan-US joint drill ‘Dawn Blitz’ is an attempt to prepare for wars

(May 15, 2013)

Citizens do not want flight demo of fighter jets over historical city of Nara

(May 18, 2013)

LDP aims to add Marines-like unit to SDF

(April 15, 2013)

Bereaved family wins state compensation for SDF member’s death

(April 12, 2013)

SDF cancels plan to let people hold guns at its events

(April 11, 2013)

Letting civilians hold guns is illegal: citizens file complaint against SDF

(April 8, 2013)

Exposure of children to SDF ranger training exercise violates Geneva treaty

(March 21, 2013)

26 SDF members killed themselves after returning from Iraq

(February 20, 2013)

Mitsubishi Electric pockets profits despite ‘penalty’

(February 26, 2013)

Residents push DM to remove plutonium from local facility

(February 4, 2013)

Residents’ protest forces closing of SDF training site

(February 3 & 5, 2013)

Network formed to shut down Mt. Fuji firing range

(January 28, 2013)

JCP Ichida opposes move to relax laws on SDF operations abroad