Japan has been one of Sri Lanka's key partners since 1952, and pooling efforts with India is the most effective way to provide an alternative to...
“The video in question was up for almost a month, and the Foreign Ministry didn’t even notice. We are losing the information war,” said one Diet...
The Japanese PM and British PM Boris Johnson agreed at his last stop that “security in the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions is indivisible.”
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The Prime Minister says parliamentary debate and public opinion must be enlivened at the same time as the ruling party pushes for four amendments.
The two leaders condemned the Russian invasion and need for strong sanctions, while the Pope and Kishida repeated their aim of a world without nuclear weapons.
Choosing the option of surrender over nuclear war is dubious. Such a weak attitude is exactly what a country flashing its nuclear card would want.
“Being able to exercise the right of collective self-defense means nothing more than avoiding getting dragged into a war,” he said at a recent symposium.
“Japan must work to defend itself, and must maintain the power needed to prevent war from breaking out in the first place” ー Former PM Shinzo...
Whereas his predecessor visited China 12 times, Olaf Scholz says Germany and Japan share the same values and both abhor Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The two countries have helped each other through many difficult times, from earthquakes to saving Jews in WWII and Tsarist Russia’s deportation of Polish orphans to...
Dr. Monika Chansoria is a senior fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. She specializes in contemporary Asian security and weapons’ proliferation issues,...