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 ...
Ishiba’s call for an “Asian NATO” represents the nexus between the Japan-U.S. alliance and internationalism – both hallmarks of Japanese foreign policy, especially in the post-Cold War era.
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 ...
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 ...
What Ishiba's Asian NATO would look like is not entirely clear at this point, but it could see Japan, the U.S., Australia and Southeast Asian nations band together to counter an increasingly ...
Russia’s deepening military cooperation with North Korea has underlined the need for Japan to forge closer ties with NATO as regional security threats become increasingly intertwined ...