Shinjiro Koizumi: “We are not considering recruiting foreign nationals into the Self-Defense Forces.”

The true source of anxiety in the Indo-Pacific is China itself

The bear mission aims to help secure people’s daily lives, but that service members’ primary mission is national defense.

We will transform the organization so that we can respond to the most severe and complex security environment of the postwar period,

Securing personnel is a major challenge amid Japan’s declining birth rate and aging population.