Japan and NATO decided Wednesday to jointly increase defense cooperation to counter threats from Russia and China. In a joint ...

expressed by Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani on Tuesday. The NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, or ...

In a report published on Thursday, the Japanese Defense Ministry announced that its air force was scrambled 704 times against ...

Japan Self Defense Forces (JSDF) vice chief of staff Lieutenant General Matsunaga Koji reiterated Tokyo's commitment to enhanced military cooperation with the Philippines, the Department of National ...

The United States is deploying around 9,000 troops to the Philippines for this year's joint military exercises, as the allies strengthen ties amid tensions with China over its activities in the South ...

Rutte said NATO is worried about China’s military exercises near Taiwan and “we follow them very closely.” Rutte told Nakatani that he hoped to deepen ties between NATO and Japan in a range of areas ...

Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said defense cooperation with Japan will receive a further boost once the Reciprocal Access ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed his complaint that the decades-old U.S.-Japan security treaty is "so one-sided" as Washington and Tokyo are set to negotiate a deal over his tariffs.

The Defense Ministry said Thursday that ... In August, Chinese military airplanes violated Japanese airspace off the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture for the first time. The number of Chinese ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan plans to join a NATO command coordinating the provision of military equipment and training to Ukraine, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Tuesday, in the latest show ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and NATO chief Mark Rutte agreed Wednesday to step up defense industry ... can be used for civilian and military purposes.