Security cooperation and strategic coordination on a variety of issues-includ­ing North Korea, the Taiwan Strait, Iraq, and the war on terrorism-are potent examples of Japan's new security outlook.

Japan should consider security cooperation focused on issues such as maritime capacity building and underwater clearance of unexploded ordnance, as well as other areas in the future, but with an eye ...

This means that Japan now needs to worry not only about China and North Korea, but also about Russia in terms of security threats. Japan should also be worried about how China and Russia cooperate ...

Japan is taking significant steps in this direction, which is welcome. The regional security architecture is shifting from the traditional hub and spoke model to one based on a latticework of ...

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Friday to boost its regional security presence to counter multiple threats, from China's expansion in the South China Sea to North Korea's nuclear ...

Japan and New Zealand have agreed in principle on an intelligence sharing pact as their leaders shared concern about the increasingly challenging security environment in the region, including ...

China, Japan and South Korea had agreed to hold a trilateral meeting every year starting in 2008 to discuss regional cooperation. But the plan has often been disrupted by diplomatic spats and most ...

Japan's and India's foreign ministers have agreed to step up security and economic cooperation as the two Asian countries look to boost their ties in the face of China's growing influence in the ...

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - The national security advisers of the United States, Japan and the Philippines on Friday discussed regional security issues and ways to strengthen the trilateral ...

Japan, for its part, has increased cooperation with the U.S. as well as Australia and India to form the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) in order to enforce their shared vision of a "Free ...

It has played up economic security issues with an eye to an expected high-tech race. In contrast, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) leans to "soft power diplomacy." ...

MANILA, Philippines — The governments of the Philippines, Japan, and the United States convened a trilateral maritime dialogue in Tokyo on December 10 and discussed strategic perspectives on ...