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

Japan said on Monday its Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has cancelled plans to attend this week's NATO summit, joining other ...

A White House spokesperson has suggested that US allies in the Asia-Pacific region should be able to raise their defense spending if NATO member countries can.

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

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to cancel his attendance at the North Atlantic Treaty ...

NATO leaders wrapped up their meetings in Europe this week with an agreement that members would increase their defense ...

The NATO summit highlighted the widening gap between how the U.S. and Europe see the military ambitions of Russia, the bloc's main foil.

Japanese officials and atomic bomb survivors have reacted to US President Donald Trump's remarks comparing the US attack on ...

Penny Wong will travel to Washington for Quad talks with Marco Rubio and their counterparts from India and Japan, amid tensions over US defence spending demands.

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs of 25 per cent on Japanese cars saw exports of automobiles to the US drop by 25 per cent in May. Now there’s Iran ...

Japan's Foreign Minister Iwaya, US Secretary of State Rubio discussed current situation in Middle East region and US tariffs ...

Japan has cancelled an annual security meeting with the US after the Donald Trump administration told the country it had to ...