Shinjiro Koizumi: “Securing personnel is a major challenge amid Japan’s declining birth rate and aging population.”

The importance of rapid access to space is growing.

Military exercises in the western Pacific earlier this week involving the Chinese Navy’s Liaoning aircraft carrier strike group had highlighted Japan’s “limited” monitoring capabilities

Incidents and accidents involving U.S. military personnel cause great anxiety among the local community and must not be allowed to happen.

We are not considering recruiting foreign nationals into the Self-Defense Forces.