For decades, Japan's defense spending remained around 1% of GDP. Just two and a half years ago, at the end of 2022, the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is facing criticism from within his own party over his last-minute decision to skip a NATO ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday that it was important to build up the necessary ...

Japan should focus on enhancing its defense capabilities, not chasing spending goals, the ruling party’s policy chief said, ...

Japan has canceled a regular high-level meeting with its key ally the United States after the Trump administration demanded ...

This would mark another shift in Japan’s arms industry, which so far has been largely restricted to producing equipment for ...

Japan's tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa is arranging his seventh visit to the United States for as early as June 26, aiming ...

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...

Japan has scrapped the planned July 1 meeting in Washington of foreign and defense ministers (known as "2+2") with the US, ...

Japan's defense minister has ordered the dispatch of two Air Self-Defense Force C-2 transport aircraft to Djibouti, a country ...

The talks’ cancellation reportedly came after the U.S. asked Japan to hike its defense budget to 3.5% of gross domestic ...

Japan and other U.S. allies have been engaged in difficult trade talks with the U.S. because of Trump's tariffs.