New US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his Japanese counterpart Gen Nakatani agreed in a phone call Friday to continue ...

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Japan on Thursday formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tension from Russia, China and North Korea.

“They are forcing us to take actions because we have defense commitments to the Philippines and we have commitments to Taiwan that we intend to keep.” “If they want to keep some path of stabilization ...

On bilateral relations, he assessed that the relationship between the Philippines and Japan has become one of the closest relationships in the Indo-Pacific region. Meanwhile, Iwaya stated that the ...

Japan and the Philippines vowed Wednesday to strengthen security cooperation to address China's actions in the South China Sea amid speculation that incoming US President Donald Trump will scale back ...

Philippines - January 15, 2025 Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo met Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya in Manila on Wednesday to discuss the continued strengthening of bilateral ties.

Iwaya’s comments came after a meeting with Manalo that covered “a wide range of matters relating to Philippines-Japan relations, including political, security, economic and development ...

The trip gave the impression that Japan’s relations with China were on the mend. Iwaya indicated that Japan would be open to hosting a Japan-China-South Korea Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in ...

Asked about the possibility of South Korea joining the US-Japan-Philippines trilateral cooperation, Manalo reiterated Manila’s and Tokyo’s commitment “to pursue our efforts at various types of ...