The Japanese and British foreign and defense ministers were to meet Wednesday to discuss closer security cooperation, including a possible exercise to evacuate each other’s nationals from a crisis overseas, a Japanese official said. The “two plus two” talks were to be the first ...
Chinese spies have stolen key designs for the F-35 stealth fighter, according to documents disclosed by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left Friday for a nearly weeklong tour of the Middle East, seeking to boost Japan’s engagement in the region. Abe chose Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories to kick off his first diplomatic tour of 2015. He will express ...
The draft ¥96.34 trillion general account budget aims to balance Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s twin goals of fiscal rehabilitation and economic growth for the coming fiscal year.
The Cabinet is requesting record-high defense spending in the fiscal 2015 budget as hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks to strengthen surveillance of territorial waters amid the ongoing Senkaku Islands dispute with China. Abe and his team are seeking ¥4.98 trillion, the third year ...
The spirit of Japan’s new state secrets law may officially be about protecting national security, but lawyers say it could affect a broad range of academic research as well.
The Abe administration approved a new space development policy Friday that focuses less on science and more on security and how to make piles of cash. Under the 10-year Basic Plan on Space Policy, the administration said it will improve cooperation with the United ...
Japan approaches Britain about buying its P-1 submarine-hunting jet as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe marches the manufacturing industry into the once-taboo arms exports business.
Australia is in talks with Japan and others on the design and production of its new submarines, the defense department said Tuesday, but it did not confirm reports the two nations will jointly build the fleet. Australia is seeking to replace its fleet of ...
Nearly two years after the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, jury selection begins Monday in the trial of the surviving suspect in the attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted in ...
The Japanese school system’s treatment of modern history is so slipshod that having a rational debate on the need for war is nearly impossible, young nationalists say.
The Japanese and British governments are arranging their first “two-plus-two” meeting involving their foreign and defense ministers for late January in London to bolster security cooperation, a source close to the bilateral relationship said Tuesday. The talks between Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense ...
