At the Tokyo conference, Japanese companies supported plans to rid Ukraine of landmines and ensure its farms will thrive when the fighting ends.
The Japan-Italy talks focused on global and regional security issues and their joint development with the UK of a next-generation fighter aircraft.
North Korea and Russia continue to trade arms in flagrant breach of UN resolutions, threatening regional security and raising weapons proliferation risks.
The Ukraine war is motivated by a Russian imperialism that rejects the Western-led order and a belief that Russia will one day emerge as the world's...
Russia illegally occupies lands belonging to both Japan and Ukraine, including the Northern Territories in Hokkaido, which Soviet troops grabbed in 1945.
Financial aid spread over 4 years would support resistance to Russian aggression. Ukraine now needs to show it has self-discipline in managing the enormous aid.
The director of the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing explains the significance of a domestically produced machine and how this connects advancing physics.
Veteran journalist Yoshihisa Komori compares the foreign policy approaches of the likely candidates for the 2024 US election and the implications for East Asia.
Restoring the power balance in Asia is key as the geographical pivot to the Indo-Pacific and Western Pacific is reframed around containing Chinese expansionism.