SEOUL, May 15. /TASS/. Japan's rapprochement with NATO and its intention to become a "military giant" would undermine regional stability and could lead to the country’s "second ruin," Kim Sol ...

But can Japan and NATO take their budding partnership to the next level? Japan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have been taking significant steps to strengthen dialogue and cooperation ...

Nothing can substitute Japan’s collective defense with the United States, but working with a multilateral bloc such as NATO is an important effort to bolster deterrence.

Although Indo-Pacific countries are seemingly receptive to the idea, NATO’s greater involvement in the region may well do more harm than good to security and stability. Japan may not be located ...

Shigeru Ishiba's call for a Nato-like alliance looks dead in the water without US support. But analysts say it could still ...

"ASEAN will not buy into Ishiba's idea about an Asian NATO. As a group, ASEAN needs Japan as a reliable trading and economic partner, not a military ally that would only exacerbate tensions in the ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is vowing to boost Japan’s relationship with NATO amid greater security concerns about some of its neighbors, namely China, North Korea and Russia. Kishida met with ...

Japan has quietly shelved a campaign to convince Pacific allies of the need for a NATO style security pact to discourage or defend themselves against Chinese aggression. The plan, first floated by ...

and by making the Japan-US military alliance the core of a new “Asian version of NATO”. “Ukraine today is Asia tomorrow.” wrote Ishiba in his recent essay for the Hudson Institute. “Replacing Russia ...

Japan's hawkish Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called for an "Asian version of NATO" to counter the rising threats of military cooperation from China, Russia, and North Korea. Recent years have ...