Friday essay: Japanese Australian veterans and the legacy of anti-Asian racism

As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on our usual way of life, the language of war proliferates. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called it the “the battle that all Australians are enlisted in as we fight this virus”. French President Emmanuel Macron has declared: “We are at war”; and US President Donald Trump is calling himself the “wartime president”.

The Pic of the Day: Ie Shima HIMARS Training in Japan

A U.S. Marine Corps High Mobility Artillery Rocket System with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, III Marine Expeditionary Force, exits a hide before a simulated fire mission while training at Ie Shima Training Facility, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 21, 2022.

Asia-Pacific SITREP for October 22

Tensions in Asia-Pacific continue to stir up this week, from North Korea’s firing another “warning shots” to Japan employing the MQ-9B

BTS: Sgt. Stephen Meiners on How They Keep F18s on Tip-Top Shape

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Stephen Meiners, an aircraft electronic systems technician and Sgt. Ernest Brunelle, a fixed wing aircraft safety equipment mechanic, both with Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 533, are awarded an incentive flight at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Sept. 30, 2022.