Japan and NATO have begun talks to establish a framework to counter a growing barrage of disinformation that threatens to undermine their security cooperation. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida aims ...

While on par with the proposed military spending for NATO members, this potentially puts Japan on track to become the third-largest military in the world. However, constitutional limitations ...

Japan is ramping up defence spending to the NATO standard of 2% of GDP by 2027, up from 1.6% at present, partly to deter an ...

Japanese voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the country’s longtime ruling party in elections Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy into a rare period of political uncertainty.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has criticized the United States for its military alliances with South Korea and Japan. He ...

NATO has invited Japan, South Korea and two other partner countries in the Asia-Pacific region to an ambassador-level meeting on Monday. At the meeting, the South Korean delegation will give a ...

Japan’s new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, is stirring the pot – notably on regional security matters.  He has proposed something that has done more than ...

When Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand took part in the NATO summit in Washington in July, the so-called Indo-Pacific Four (IP4) nations demonstrated the close connection of the Indo ...

Japan is already in the process of doubling its military spending to the NATO standard of two percent of GDP. “This pressure from Trump doesn’t exactly clash with Ishiba’s hope to increase defence ...