On Saturday, November 11, Japan led a yearly multinational naval exercise that included the Philippines as an observer for the first time, as Philippine coast guard vessels have been increasingly harassed...
Japan will start buying U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles in fiscal year 2025, a year earlier than initially scheduled, Defense Minister Minoru Kihara declared on October 4, following Tokyo’s ongoing tensions with...
SINGAPORE — In a rare trilateral summit on September 26, South Korea played host to top-level diplomats from Japan and China. The summit was viewed as an attempt to reassure Beijing...
SINGAPORE — South Korea’s ambassador to Japan declared that “high-level” discussions were ongoing prior to a three-nation summit with China scheduled to take place this year, and that such talks would not...
In a report published August 30, Britain’s House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee suggested that Japan and South Korea be incorporated into the trilateral security pact among Australia, the U.K., and...
SINGAPORE — On August 29, General Yoshihide Yoshida, the chief of the Joint Staff for Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, contended in an interview to Nikkei Asia that his country should bolster its...
On August 25, Japan dispatched warplanes to monitor Chinese bombers and drones off Okinawa and Taiwan, according to Kyodo News reports quoting the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD), amid rising Sino-Japanese...
Leaders of the two countries met in March, in their first bilateral summit in a dozen years. ...
Japan and NATO are hoping to boost cooperation in cyberspace, with the U.S.-led military alliance hoping to open its first liaison office in Tokyo, according to a May 3 report by...
Towards the end of the Group of Seven (G7) Foreign Ministers’ meeting in the Japanese resort town of Karuizawa on April 18, top diplomats slammed China’s assertiveness and military belligerence regarding...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was safely evacuated after a suspect hurled what seemed to be a smoke bomb at an outdoor event in western Japan on Saturday, according to Japanese...
Although the United States has campaigned for a $60-a-barrel cap on purchases of Russian crude oil, Japan, a close U.S. ally, has decided to purchase Russian oil beyond the price cap....
“Militarization for me, but not for thee.” That is the frequent attitude of global superpowers when they see smaller states wisely building up their military capabilities, viewing it as a potential...
The country has hitherto provided Ukraine over $600 million worth of direct financial support, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency humanitarian aid. ...
SINGAPORE — Japan, this year’s chair of the Group of Seven (G-7), anticipates the Russia-Ukraine crisis to feature heavily in talks among the world’s major advanced economies, its top finance diplomat...