Japan is seeking to create a more self-sufficient military as a deterrence against China’s increasingly assertive military ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday called for an early implementation of Japan's plan to increase defence ...

Visiting U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth pressed his Japanese counterpart on Oct. 29 in talks at the Defense Ministry in ...

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will meet with Japan’s recently elected Prime Minister Sanae ...

In his first meeting with Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, U.S. defense chief Pete Hegseth called Japan's current defense ...

Pete Hegseth may make a second trip to Japan as defense secretary to meet with the country’s new defense minister.

President Donald Trump and other senior U.S. leaders are on tour in Asia this week affirming alliances against the backdrop ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will meet his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo Wednesday, the Japanese Defense Ministry said ...

TOKYO - U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is set to hold talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi in Tokyo ...

A key theme of Hegseth’s trip will be “America‘s focus on the Indo-Pacific, the Department’s priority theatre,” the Pentagon ...

He said he had made no specific demand on the scale of increase in Tokyo's defence spending.     Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Self-designated Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was met with an excruciatingly awkward silence as he tried to act as a hype man ...