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

The House of Councillors July 20 election exposes the cracks in Japan’s political strongholds and the growing regional-urban ...

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 ...

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 ...

Against this backdrop, this article examines the challenges for U.S. allies such as NATO and Japan and how they should collectively respond to the new US approach to alliance management. The ...

PRAGUE – Tomio Okamura, the Tokyo-born leader of Czechia’s far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) party, is making a ...

Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles, Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, NATO Secretary ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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