Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio meets with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. Sweden is poised to join NATO as the newest member. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan Advertisement Japan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have laid out fresh plans … Read more
From left to right: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Hipkins, and South Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol meet during the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. Credit: NATO Advertisement For the second year in a row, the NATO summit … Read more
Advertisement Earlier this year, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the organization was considering the opening of a liaison office in Japan by 2024. Amid the growing tensions between the United States and China, the latest move from the transatlantic alliance is perceived as a way to shore up Western security partnerships in the … Read more
Advertisement “Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow.” This chilling statement – uttered by Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio at the Shangri-la Security Dialogue summit in Singapore last year – perfectly encapsulates the growing sense of urgency over the security situation in Japan. Policymakers in Tokyo, far from standing still, have made proactive efforts to … Read more