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Credits for 18 with a Bullet

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Learn more about Japanese history, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, and the U.S.-Japanese alliance with these web resources.

(Premieres July 8, 2008) The film "Japan's About-Face" is a remarkable window into the shifting role of the military in post-war Japanese society.

Japan’s About-Face is a remarkable window into the shifting role of the military in post-war Japanese society.

Take the poll: Should the Japanese SDF participate in American military operations around the world?

WIDE ANGLE speaks with Richard J. Samuels, the founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Japan Program, about the relationship between the U.S. and Japan.

Filmmaker Micah Fink talks about how and why he was granted the access necessary to make "Japan's About-Face". Fink also reflects on whether Japan is still a pacifist nation.

View an interactive map of Japan's SDF deployments around the world.

Read about Japan's military history, from ancient times to the present.

WIDE ANGLE spoke with Jean-Marie Guéhenno, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, about the crisis in Darfur.

Ask Aaron Brown your questions about the premiere episode of WIDE ANGLE, Heart of Darfur.