Even with a minority government, deliberative debate cannot be realized unless the prime minister himself lays out the ...

Tokyo has all but thrown out the legal limitations set in Article 9 of the constitution, which bans Japan from acquiring ...

Storyline: Bracing rainy weather, dozens of Japanese protesters gathered in front of Japan's Ministry of Defense on Monday evening to rally against the planned relocation of a U.S. air base to Henoko ...

Record defence budgets from Japan and the Philippines come as tensions with China grow and incoming US leader urges allies to spend more.

Japan has allocated 8.1 billion yen for fiscal 2025 to provide defense equipment to the armed forces of like-minded nations, marking a more than 60 percent increase from the previous year. While the ...

In November 2024, the Japanese government announced plans to invest approximately $65 billion to support the country’s ...

While internal taxes financed Ukraine’s defense needs, the top five sources that covered Ukraine’s budget deficit in 2024 ...

Wild weather during New Zealand’s peak summer holiday period has disrupted travel for thousands of passengers on ferries that cross the sea between the North and South Islands.

Global central banks plan to cautiously cut borrowing costs in 2025, with the possibility of slower rate reductions compared ...

The city government's annual budget ballooned to about 200 billion ... who perished or remain unaccounted for after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the tsunami it generated.

The government of Japan is engaging in comprehensive economic measures to address skyrocketing consumer prices, but are these ...

Japan, the United States and South Korea have steadily built on their security cooperation amid China's rise and North Korea's belligerence, but the future appears precarious with the unpredictable ...