Shinjirō Koizumi

Okinawa governor wants discipline for U.S. military in Japan after murder linked to Marine

People hold a march calling for the burden on Okinawa from hosting US forces to be lifted in Okinawa on May 14, 2022

Lance-Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard is accused of killing 39-year-old Anna Yagi on the southern island of Okinawa, where thousands of US servicemen are stationed

There were no immediate details on the second launch, which Seoul’s Defense Ministry confirmed soon after 6 p.m

Prime ministers in Japan routinely shuffle their cabinets to refresh the government's public image and to distribute ministerial posts to loyal supporters and experienced lawmakers from the same party

U.S. government actions undermined the Trump official’s Southeast Asian tour

Speaking on a visit to Australia, Shinjiro Koizumi came out strongly in support of joint security cooperation with its key defense backer Washington, and neighbour Seoul

Trump made the surprise announcement about the troop drawdown in a social media post just before US and South Korean soldiers began Monday's annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises

Ryan Donald, public affairs director of the United Nations Command (UNC), Combined Forces Command (CFC), and United States Forces Korea (USFK) bump fists during the press briefing for the Ulchi Freedom Shield 2025 exercise at the Defense Ministry on August 07, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea

One of Takaichi’s most senior ministers, Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, arrived in Canberra on Tuesday for meetings with counterpart Richard Marles

Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates some two and a half million mostly Japanese soldiers and civilians killed in World War II, is one of the country’s most revered sites, visited by millions every year

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, another Cabinet minister and three executives from Takaichi’s governing party showed up at the shrine earlier Saturday

Nagasaki marks the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing with a memorial ceremony attended by representatives from more than 90 countries

Japan turns to combat drones and AI as China tensions reshape defense strategy

Behind the pacifist facade lies a right-wing push to break nuclear taboos and unshackle its military

Japan is an internationally recognized nuclear threshold state

The analyst called on the international community to firmly oppose nuclear development by a country witnessing a resurgence of militarism

While in Indonesia, the two countries agreed that Indonesia would procure BrahMos missiles from India, in Australia, Modi’s visit resulted in several significant defence-related agreements, including the Joint Declaration on Defence and Security Cooperation (JDDSC), the Maritime Security Collaboration Roadmap (MSCR), and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and Australia's Maritime Border Command (MBC)

The meeting comes after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to strengthen his country's defense capabilities, including equipping its navy with nuclear weapons and pressing ahead with missiles testing

Guo made the remarks at a regular news conference when asked whether China is concerned about deepening military cooperation between Ukraine and Japan, after Ukrainian drone companies reportedly sought to cooperate with Japan

For the first time in about 50 years, Tokyo can now sell or transfer defence equipment and lethal weapons to the 17 countries with which it has signed formal agreements, including the US and the UK

Yet for years the nation’s navy has lacked the subsurface awareness to monitor, let alone counter, what moves beneath the waves

Senior defence officials and military leaders from across the Asia-Pacific and beyond convene at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue, one of Asia's premier track-one intergovernmental security forums

Japan Rejects China’s ‘New Militarism’ Label as Hypocritical

Balikatan now focused on defending PHL amid regional tensions

Veteran Chinese diplomat Cui Tiankai raises three major questions to US, Japan and Europe at Shangri-La Dialogue

Congress media department chief Pawan Khera on Saturday expressed strong displeasure over remarks made by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praising Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir

The command, established in 2024, has a staff of around 700 and coordinates military equipment supplies and training for Ukraine provided by members and partner countries of NATO

The two countries’ shared grievances over Chinese territorial claims have seen them draw increasingly close in recent years, including the signing of a reciprocal access agreement allowing for the deployment of troops on each other’s territory

Teodoro rejects China’s ‘playing with fire’ claim

Indonesian Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin signed the agreement with ​his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi in Jakarta

Roughly one-fifth of the world's oil normally flows through the Strait of Hormuz, with eighty percent of that oil destined for Asia

The move triggered a diplomatic rupture between the two nations, with France recalling its ambassador from Canberra and the then French foreign minister accusing Australia of a “stab in the back”

The accident occurred at around 8:40 a.m. during a tank exercise at the GSDF's Hijudai training range in Oita Prefecture

The deal, announced by Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his Australian counterpart Richard Marles in Melbourne, comes ahead of Japan’s planned easing of its rules on defence equipment exports, which place strict limits on the export of weapons with lethal capabilities

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is arranging a visit to the Philippines in early May to advance talks with his counterpart Gilberto Teodoro on Japan's export of decommissioned Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday

Camp Kengun has been equipped with a ground-launched version of the upgraded Type 12 land-to-ship guided missile that can fly about 1,000 kilometers, far exceeding Japan's territorial boundaries and widely seen as having clear offensive capabilities

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets US President Donald Trump this Thursday in Washington

Trump: 'About seven' countries in talks to help police Strait of Hormuz

Japan claims to be pursuing "counterstrike capabilities", a euphemism for the ability to launch preemptive attacks on targets in its neighborhood

The questioning followed recent moves by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to further ease Japan's arms export restrictions

Yonaguni island is located just 110km away from the shores of Taiwan

Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and his South Korean counterpart Ahn Gyu Back decided on Friday to step up personnel exchanges between their forces amid mounting regional security challenges

The deployments of Russian and Chinese forces come as Japan enhances its military capabilities, including the fielding of stealth jets and aircraft carriers, amid what it has described as the "most severe and complex" security environment of the postwar era

Russia maintains a military presence in the country's Far East region, which lies opposite the Japanese archipelago, despite its war with Ukraine