defense industry

ANALYSIS: Abe administration changes basic concept...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga explains the new exception to the weapons export ban on March 1. (Shogo Koshida)
March 02, 2013
All that stood in the way of the Abe administration's controversial plan to allow Japan to produce and export weapons parts used in the F-35 stealth fighter jet was a set of...
China builds its own military-industrial complex
J-11 fighter jets of the Jinan Military Region of Chinese PLA Air Force fly over the sea during a combat training in Shandong province, eastern China on Sept. 16. China is stepping up live-ammunition combat trainings over islands dispute with Japan. (AP Photo)
September 17, 2012
HONG KONG--When China turned to Russia for supplies of advanced weapons through the 1990s, it kick-started Beijing's military build-up with an immediate boost in firepower.
Cyber-attack probe centers on defense industry group
October 17, 2011
Cyber-attacks on the major Japanese defense contractors Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. both appear to have involved the same U.S.-based...
U.S. government concerned at hacking of Japan arms...
September 21, 2011
The United States on Sept. 21 expressed concern about recent cyber attacks on defense contractors in Japan, which build U.S.-designed missiles, warships and military aircraft,...
Japan's defense industry hit by its first cyber...
September 19, 2011
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said on Sept. 19 its computers had been hacked into, with one newspaper saying the target was Japan's biggest defense contractor's factories...
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