Japan's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that joint military drills scheduled between Japan and the United States had been canceled due to a budget standoff that the U.S. Congress has yet to resolve.
A series of joint military drills between the U.S. Marine Corps and Japan's Self-Defense Forces using the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft started on Tuesday morning at an SDF training field in the western Japanese prefecture of Shiga, the country's Kyodo News Agency reported.
Japan and the United States undertook to review and update the two countries' defense cooperation framework with the discussions Thursday aimed at forming the basis of agreement for the foreseeable future under more balanced terms.
Japan and the United States on Thursday agreed to revise their bilateral defense cooperation guidelines by the end of 2014 in a move to cope with changing security environment, according to the two countries' defense and foreign chiefs.
Japan and the United States on Thursday agreed to revise their bilateral defense cooperation guidelines by the end of 2014 in a move to cope with changing security environment, according to the two countries' defense and foreign chiefs.
Japan and the United States on Monday kicked off their second round of bilateral trade talks on auto and trade barriers in parallel with the U.S.-led Trans- Pacific Partnership free trade talks, reported local media.
Japan and its key ally the United States will hold a two-plus-two summit between the two countries' foreign and defense ministers on Oct. 3 in Tokyo on bilateral security cooperation, reported local media Friday.
Japan needs to go beyond domestic policies and ensure a good international environment in order to succeed, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Friday evening.
Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Shinzo Abe on Tuesday reconvened a panel of experts to continue discussions on lifting the nation's self-imposed constitutional ban on exercising the right of collective self-defense.
There is no month like September that witnessed so many major events on the bumpy road of China-Japan relations.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Monday sent a senior official to South Korea to protest its ban on fisheries products from eight prefectures in Japan, imposed over safety fears concerning radioactive water leaking from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The Japanese government on Sunday welcomed an agreement between the United States and Russia over the issue of Syrian chemical weapons, according to Japan's Foreign Ministry.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed Thursday to beef up Japan's defense capability and actively debate on the rights of collective self-defense.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) coalition ally on Thursday urged the government to overcome differences in opinions with China over an ongoing territorial dispute in the interest of improving relations.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday called on his government to take a more proactive stance to ensure global peace and stability amid what he called a shifting geopolitical and security environment in East Asia.
Japanese enterprises remained optimistic in China's market with more veering towards the service sector from traditional manufacturing as Sino-Japan economic ties cooled down due to disputes over the Diaoyu Islands.
Japan and the United States on Monday reiterated that the two counties will cooperate to enhance their bilateral alliance and to tackle current Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks.
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