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Japan, the United States and Australia will deepen their coordination over security strategy, their defense ministers said Saturday, apparently reflecting wariness over China's growing maritime assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region.…

South Korea, the United States, and Japan on Friday held anti-submarine drills in international waters off the Sea of Japan for the first time in five years, amid concerns over the potential threat posed by North Korean sub-launched…

The chiefs of the Japanese and German air forces pledged Thursday to further enhance cooperation at a time of rising tensions in the region, with their fighter jets conducting a formation flight over Japanese skies the previous day. East…

North Korea on Wednesday fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, according to Japanese and South Korean authorities, amid an ongoing joint drill by the South Korean and U.S. navies. The missiles appear to have landed…

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida discussed existing cooperation in the fields of digitalization, sustainability, energy and multilateral trade during a meeting on Tuesday. Lee was in Tokyo…

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed with his Australian and Indian counterparts on Tuesday to cooperate in achieving a free and open Indo-Pacific, a vision former leader Shinzo Abe advocated. Kishida reached the agreements during separate…

Japan demanded an apology from Russia for what it saw as the unjust detention of one of its diplomats in Vladivostok, who Tokyo said was blindfolded and physically restrained after the Kremlin falsely accused him of spying. Top government…

North Korea on Sunday fired a short-range ballistic missile toward the Sea of Japan, according to Japanese and South Korean authorities, two days after a U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea for joint drills. The projectile appears…

A former diplomat dismissed by Myanmar's military junta for his opposition to last year's coup has criticized Japan for inviting the head of the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's state funeral. Aung Soe Moe…

A body discovered a week ago on the beach near Japan's scenic Shiretoko Peninsula was confirmed to be that of the captain of a tourist boat that sank nearby in April, leaving more than 10 people dead, the coast guard said Saturday. The…