WASHINGTON — U.S. and Japanese officials said on Wednesday that the two nations would expand their military cooperation, including improving Japan’s missile strike capabilities and making the ...

Tokyo — Japanese and U.S. defense chiefs and top diplomats agreed to further bolster their military cooperation by upgrading the command and control of U.S. forces in the East Asian country and ...

TOKYO -- Japan cautioned against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity stretching from its southwestern coasts to ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to announce the enhancement of U.S. Forces Japan into a three-star command that will help the U.S. more closely work alongside Japanese forces.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated, “This will be the most significant change to US Forces Japan (USFJ) since its creation, and one of the strongest improvements in our military ties with ...

China urged Japan to act prudently in military and security affairs and "adhere to the path of peaceful development". "China has always maintained that defence and security cooperation between ...

U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Sung Kim, left, Japan Director-General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Takehiro Funakoshi, center, and South Korea Special Representative for ...

Today, Japan is ranked fifth globally in overall military power after the U.S., Russia, China and India, and its defense budget ranked sixth in the 2021 ranking of 140 countries by the Global ...

The U.S. may be pulling back from Europe under President Trump, but despite his remarks about Japan, U.S. military cooperation with Tokyo has appeared stable, and may even expand as the White ...

"Japan-South Korea cooperation has become more important than ever," Nakatani said during a welcoming ceremony, as he cited North Korean missile tests as one of the threats the two nations face ...

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