Japan's Defense Minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, accused Beijing this Tuesday of "exacerbating" tensions in the South China Sea following a new maritime control operation launched by China in eastern Taiwan.This operation coincides with the start of talks between Japan and the Philippines to set the limits of their respective exclusive economic...
The Armed Forces of Japan and South Korea have initiated this Monday their first joint military training exercises in almost nine years, a milestone that Tokyo interprets as the start of "a new chapter" in bilateral defense cooperation.Despite China's complaints, which denounces alleged militarization by Japan, the two countries have...
The Government of China has communicated this Saturday the start of a "maritime law enforcement operation" in waters east of Taiwan, in reaction to the opening of talks between Japan and the Philippines on the status of that area, in the context of the prolonged territorial dispute facing several countries...
Chinese authorities have harshly criticized this Wednesday the maritime delimitation talks described as "illegal and invalid" that Japan and the Philippines have announced, underscoring that the area in question directly affects the island of Taiwan, a self-administered territory whose sovereignty Beijing claims.The spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the...
Japanese authorities have made it clear that they do not contemplate Taiwan's participation in the bilateral talks announced with the Philippines to establish a new delimitation of their maritime spaces.In a press conference, Japanese government spokesperson Minoru Kihara stressed that any future pact on the maritime border would only "establish...
Japanese authorities reported this Tuesday that at least 16 people have been injured and around 400,000 residents have had to abandon their homes due to a tropical storm that has hit the southwest of the country, also leaving thousands of citizens without electricity supply.The Japan Meteorological Agency has warned in...
Fujitsu has announced the signing of an agreement with Anthropic PBC, formalized on May 27, through which both companies will join forces to drive large-scale AI-based transformation in the Japanese business sector.Under this alliance, the Japanese multinational will incorporate Anthropic's "Claude" to "reinforce and expand" its "Forward Deployed Engineer" (FDE)...
The Prime Minister of Japan, Sanae Takaichi, has called on the Iranian president, Masud Pezeshkian, this Monday for "maximum flexibility" in order to reach an understanding with the United States that contributes to ending the conflict in the Middle East. This is the third phone conversation between the two leaders...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi urged Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday to act with "maximum flexibility" towards an eventual understanding with the United States that contributes to ending the conflict in the Middle East. This is the third phone conversation between the two leaders since the current offensive began...
SoftBank Group has emerged this Monday as the company with the highest stock market value in Japan, after its shares soared 14.02% at the close of trading. This strong advance has boosted its market capitalization to nearly 49 trillion yen (about 263 billion euros), placing it ahead of the automotive...
The Japanese Minister of Defense, Shinjiro Koizumi, has categorically dismissed that the ultraconservative cabinet led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has initiated a process of "remilitarization" or dismantled decades of pacifist policy, as China has been claiming in recent months. Koizumi has described these accusations as an exercise in "hypocrisy"...
The Japanese Minister of Defense, Shinjiro Koizumi, ratified this Friday that Japan will participate in the NATO mission aimed at training the Ukrainian Army, through the deployment, for the first time, of four members of the Self-Defense Forces. These military personnel will join the tasks organized by the Atlantic Alliance...
Japan's Ministry of Finance confirmed this Friday that, during the last month, it made an unprecedented effort in the foreign exchange market, allocating 11.73 trillion yen (63.31 billion euros) to prop up the Japanese currency's exchange rate, after it approached its lowest levels against the dollar in 36 years.These actions...
China's Ministry of Defense has urged the international community this Thursday to look beyond Japan's "deceptive diplomacy" and act to curb its "neo-militarism," considering that Tokyo is moving in the opposite direction to what it proclaims, thus fueling bilateral tensions.In a press conference, the ministry's spokesperson, Colonel Jiang Bin, stressed...
Japan and the Philippines have decided this Thursday to deepen their bilateral cooperation in the face of rising tensions with China, proposing the start of formal talks for an agreement to facilitate the exchange of intelligence information and thus strengthen joint security.Within the framework of an official visit to Tokyo,...
The Japanese Parliament has given the green light this Wednesday to a law establishing a unified national Intelligence agency, intended to concentrate the work and operations of the various existing investigation offices into a single body. The measure, considered a major shift in the country's security architecture, has drawn strong...
Chinese authorities have expressed this Friday their strong rejection of the United States installing 'Typhon' missile systems at a military base located in Kagoshima Prefecture, in southern Japan. Beijing maintains that Washington must reconsider this decision, which in its opinion deepens the path of "remilitarization" of the neighboring country.In a...
Japanese authorities have rejected this Thursday the accusations made by China and Russia about the shift in Tokyo's defense policy following the arrival of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in government, maintaining that they are "unfounded" reproaches and that the real concern lies in Beijing's military activity.In statements collected by the...
Japanese authorities decided this Monday to cancel the tsunami alert that had been activated hours earlier following a magnitude 7.7 earthquake on the Richter scale registered off the country's east coast, with no victims or material damage reported for now.The Japan Meteorological Agency has detailed that the tremor occurred around...