Analysts say the decision could be a missed opportunity to formalise Japan's role as a trusted partner in global security ...

By Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will cancel his attendance at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in the Hague this week, a source with ...

It is decidedly outside the Trump administration’s interest to harm the LDP’s electoral prospects if it wants a greater ...

For decades, Japan's defense spending remained around 1% of GDP. Just two and a half years ago, at the end of 2022, the Japanese government announced plans to strengthen national defense significantly ...

Japanese media reported that Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has scrapped his upcoming trip to the NATO leaders’ ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to cancel his visit to the Netherlands for a NATO summit, the government ...

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs of 25 per cent on Japanese cars saw exports of automobiles to the US drop by 25 per cent in May. Now there’s Iran ...

Washington is using the tariffs to force countries to further align with US war interests and substantially boost military ...

Events that displease China’s diplomats are usually good for the United States, and this week they were hopping mad. At the ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a tough test in an upper house election this month as his minority government ...