The plan, first floated by new Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba, would involve more formal military and strategic cooperation ...

These voices underline the common aspiration of ASEAN countries for development and peace. Before Ishiba was elected the ...

His vision for an Asian NATO, plans to revise the US/Japan security treaty and renegotiate aspects of the Status of Forces ...

Yuki Tatsumi, director of the Japan program at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington, said at last week's CSIS seminar ...

An Asian NATO "cannot be launched overnight," Ishiba said during a question-and-answer session with opposition party leaders. He had proposed the idea of a NATO-style collective security framework in ...

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SINGAPORE--A week ago Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007 in a move that marked a historic shift in monetary policy. Yet the currency fell. Now Japanese officials are talking ...

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