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The meeting between Washington and its key Asian partner in standing up to China's increasing might comes as North Korea's missile tests and calls for a larger nuclear arsenal worry U.S. allies in the region. Kishida plans to discuss Tokyo's new security policy, which saw the unveiling in December of Japan's biggest military build-up since World War Two, Japan's Yomiuri daily newspaper reported last week , citing multiple unidentified Japanese government sources.

Washington: US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are expected to meet in Washington as soon as January 13, a person engage...

Japan on Friday unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War II with a $320 billion five-year plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China. Here is a look at Japan’s new security and defense strategies and how they will change the country’s defense posture.

Japan this week adopted a new national security strategy that includes determination to possess “counterstrike" capability to preempt enemy attacks and double its spending to gain a more offensive footing and improve its resilience to protect itself from growing risks from China, North Korea and Russia.

A 16-year-old plan to transfer a significant number of U.S. Marines from the Japanese island prefecture of Okinawa to the U.S. territory of Guam continues to make sense strategically and politically, a U.S. military commander says.