Japan’s next leader will be a former defense minister who wants to reshape what he sees as an unequal alliance with the U.S., ...

Shigeru Ishiba, a former defense minister, wants the have a more equal partnership with the US. He will be elected prime ...

A former defence minister who has backed the formation of an “Asian Nato” is set to become the next prime minister of Japan ...

Japan’s next Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is a self-proclaimed policy wonk on defense matters whose friends consider him to ...

Shigeru Ishiba, tapped to be Japan's next prime minister, may cause diplomatic headaches for the U.S. with proposals to ...

Japan is urging its citizens to leave Lebanon and has decided to prepare military flights for their possible evacuation, the ...

With the unprecedented move this time, Japan now joined the other Western countries engaging in freedom-of-navigation ...

Global Firepower's 2024 Military Strength Rankings were released months ago. The United States secured the top spot, followed ...

The US is Japan’s only security treaty ally and has its largest permanent foreign military presence in Japan, with around ...

Ishiba, who wants an “Asian NATO” to counter security threats from China and North Korea, is the Liberal Democratic Party’s ...

Shigeru Ishiba had come close to the top job before, including in 2012 when he lost to nationalist Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving leader who was later assassinated.

Japan’s next prime minister Shigeru Ishiba yesterday outlined his ideas to reshape the nation’s military alliance with ...