Japan -US Military Alliance

50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance Illusion of ‘equality’ - Part I (February 14, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance Illusion of ‘equality’ - Part II Young Nakasone mutters disgust (February 15, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance Illusion of ‘equality’ - Part III Japan’s request to revise the Treaty refused flatly (February 17, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance Illusion of ‘equality’ - Part IV Resentment at U.S. high-handedness (February 18, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance Illusion of ‘equality’ - Part V Japan’s effort to produce ‘equality’ (February 19, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance Illusion of ‘equality’ - Part VI Bringing nuclear weapons into Japan is absolute requirement (February 21, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance Illusion of ‘equality’ - Part VII Bases stationed without defense obligation (February 22, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance Illusion of ‘equality’ - Part VIII Germany expands its sovereignty over U.S. forces  (February 23, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance SOFA, the Darkness - Part I Obstacle to resolution of crimes by U.S. personnel (April 02, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance SOFA, the Darkness - Part II U.S. serviceman not punished even after causing traffic accident (April 03, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance SOFA, the Darkness - part III Japanese Government secretly agrees to renounce the right of jurisdiction (April 05, 2010)
50 years of Japan-US Alliance SOFA, the Darkness - Part IV DoD presses Japan to waive jurisdiction (April 06, 2010)
50 years of Japan-US Alliance SOFA, the Darkness – Part V Priority given to military operations over any sense of justice (April 07, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance SOFA, the Darkness - part VI Secret agreement concerning arrest of U.S. soldiers (April 08, 2010)
50 years of Japan-US Alliance SOFA, the Darkness - Part VII Japan gives special privileges to US personnel in jail (April 09, 2010)
50 years of Japan-US Alliance SOFA, the Darkness - Part VIII Victims refuse to let the matter drop (April 10, 2010)
50 years of Japan-U.S. Alliance SOFA, the Darkness - part IX  (April 10, 2010)
Mechanism of US privileges - Part I People shake US free use of bases in Japan  (May 02, 2010)
Mechanism of US privileges -- Part Ⅱ Why are rights of control unlike in Europe?  (May 03, 2010)
Mechanism of US privileges - PartⅢ Secret agreement to grant unlimited authority to the US forces  (May 05, 2010)
Mechanism of US privileges - PartⅣ Free use of bases in Okinawa  (May 07, 2010)
Mechanism of US privileges - Part V Nothing to do with defense of Japan  (May 08, 2010)
Mechanism of US privileges -- Part VI World’s most generous nation to US forces  (May 10, 2010)
Mechanism of US privileges - Part VII US priority in use of SDF training grounds  (May 11, 2010)
Mechanism of US privileges -- PartⅧ Court acknowledged U.S. military presence unconstitutional  (May 12, 2010)
Japan-US alliance and SDF -- Part I SDF now experienced in the battlefield  (July 18, 2010)
Japan-U.S. alliance and SDF -- Part II Deterioration of ‘permanent neutral’ country (July 19, 2010)
Japan-US alliance and SDF -- Part III US forces-patronized SDF from beginning  (July 20, 2010)
Japan-US Alliance and SDF – Part IV Bilateral military planning since 1955  (July 21, 2010)
Japan-U.S. alliance and SDF -- Part V Secret pact on ‘US control’  (July 22, 2010)
Japan-US alliance and SDF -- Part VI Information sharing and heavy reliance on US forces  (July 23, 2010)
Japan-US alliance and SDF -- Part VII GSDF turning into Marine Corps  (July 24, 2010)
Where is Japan-US alliance heading? – Part I Without imaginary enemies (August 29, 2010)
Where is Japan-US Security Treaty heading? -- Part II Tricky argument about ‘Chinese threat’  (August 30, 2010)
Where is Japan-US Security Treaty heading? -- Part III China is rival  (August 31, 2010)
Where is Japan-US Security Treaty heading? - Part IV ‘North Korean threat’ argument  (September 02, 2010)
Where is Japan-US Security Treaty heading? - Part V Use of humanitarian aid as camouflage  (September 03, 2010)
Where is Japan-U.S. alliance heading? -- Part VI Strategy for ‘Sea of peace’  (September 04, 2010)
Ignoring demand of Okinawans, Noda promises Obama a new US base in Okinawa  (September 23, 2011)