Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi on Friday said Japan will step ... The frigate left Germany in August for deployment in the Indo-Pacific as part of the country’s recent shift to the region and ...

Apart from being the largest democracy and like-minded country in East Asia, Japan is a longstanding value partner to Germany and Europe. Even before its Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision, Japan has ...

Japan has slipped to the world’s fourth-largest economy as government data released Thursday showed it fell behind the size of Germany's in ... To solve the country's labor shortage problem ...