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  • News
    • Press Conference
    • Press Release
    • Security Dialogues
    • Joint Exercise
    • Capacity Building
  • Defense Policy
    • Japan's Security
    • Basis of Defense Policy
    • Japan MOD's Approach in Achieving the FOIP Vision
    • Defense Budget
    • Measures on Defense Equipment and Technology Cooperation
    • Space Domain Defense Guidelines
  • Defense Efforts and Activities
    • Major Exercises
    • Integrated Air and Missile Defense
    • Government's Efforts to Ensure the Safety of Japan-Related Vessels in the Middle East
    • Government's Efforts to Ensure the Effective Implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions (Response to Illicit Maritime Activities)
    • Integrated Information Warfare with Special Regard to the Cognitive Dimension
    • Great East Japan Earthquake
    • Women, Peace and Security (WPS)
  • Japan-U.S. Alliance
    • Significance of the Japan-U.S. Security Arrangements
    • Japan-U.S. Joint Declaration on Security
    • Guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation
    • Japan-U.S. Security Talk / Joint Exercise
  • Security Cooperation
    • Defense Cooperation and Exchanges with Other Countries
    • Multilateral Security Dialogues
    • International Activities
  • Security Environment Surrounding Japan
  • About JMOD
    • Leadership
    • Press Conferences by Defense Minister
    • Organization
    • History

Security Environment Surrounding Japan

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North Korea

  • Recent Missile & Nuclear Development of North Korea (Oct 2025)

China

  • The Coast Guard Law of the People’s Republic of China(English)
  • The Coast Guard Law of the People’s Republic of China(Chinese)
  • China’s Activities in East China Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Sea of Japan (Oct 2025)
  • China’s Activities in the South China Sea(China’s development activities on the features and trends in related countries)(April 2025)

Russia

  • Development of Russian Armed Forces in the Vicinity of Japan (Oct 2025)

Others

  • Regarding an incident of ROK naval directing its fire-control radar at an MSDF patrol aircraft
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