Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday U.S. President Donald Trump briefed her by phone in "great detail" on his meeting in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Takaichi told reporters after speaking with Trump,

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi cited constraints under war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution on dispatching the Self-Defense Forces to the Strait of Hormuz during her summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.

The ruling party is expected to debate raising outlays to as much as 5 per cent of GDP, in line with that of many Nato members Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is weighing a sharp rise in defence spending as pressure from US President Donald Trump and worsening security conditions in the Indo-Pacific force Tokyo to reconsider how much

President Donald Trump invoked Pearl Harbor while defending the U.S. strike on Iran and his decision not to alert allies in advance, saying during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi: “Who knows surprise better than Japan?

President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher forged a robust friendship that solidified the foundation of the Western alliance against Soviet imperialism. They demonstrated that strong leaders working together can make a decisive difference ...