Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and NATO chief Mark Rutte have vowed to further deepen military ties while stressing ...

Ishiba said a strong NATO benefits Japan and expressed his intention to take Japan-NATO cooperation to new heights. Tsuruoka ...

Over 80,000 Marines, soldiers, and sailors from our two countries fought at Iwo Jima. More than 26,000 died here. Today, we ...

Shigeru Ishiba came across as having little new ... “The administration will fall,” said a senior Defense Ministry official. In some quarters, officials were aghast at Ishiba’s published ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called Japan an “indispensable partner” in deterring growing Chinese assertiveness in ...

Japanese governments have proposed policies to reverse this trend, but they have so far had little success. Thirty percent of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has adamantly maintained that he ... “There is no legal issue,” such a defense is unlikely to resonate with the public. In light of the fierce backlash over ...

In his first trip to Japan, U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth visited Iwo Jima and attended a memorial with Japanese Prime ...

The U.S. defense secretary sought to reassure its ally over security ties and vowed to speed up the creation of a joint ...

President Trump has complained the U.S.-Japan defense partnership is one-sided, but with China throwing its weight around, ...

Today, as we hold the graduation ceremony for the prestigious National Defense Academy (NDA) here at Obaradai, Yokosuka, I, as Prime Minister, extend my heartfelt congratulations to the graduating ...