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For decades, Japan's defense spending remained around 1% of GDP. Just two and a half years ago, at the end of 2022, the ...
The party’s first-ever seats in the Tokyo legislature come amid scrutiny over its leader’s remarks on gender and overall ...
Those calling for Australia to not go all the way with Trump’s unpredictable America never tell us it would mean tripling the ...
ITOMAN, Japan — "Money should be spent on rice, not missiles," Kunio Aragaki, a resident in Okinawa, told Xinhua News Agency ...
The Cabinet has approved a draft initial budget for fiscal 2025, the third year of the government’s five-year plan to spend a total of 43 trillion yen ($272 billion) on national defense. The ...
Senior Pentagon officials are increasingly concerned by China's advancing hypersonic and nuclear capabilities.
Opinion
Editorial Roundup: United States
The rise of the federal debt over the past two decades has prompted countless warnings that the United States is approaching a fiscal reckoning, a day when the government won’t be able to drink all it ...
As global attention shifts from the recent 12-day Israel-Iran conflict, NATO's outgoing Secretary General Mark Rutte has ...
India's defence stocks are gaining from rising global and domestic spending. PTC, Dynamatic, and Azad offer strong growth ...
The purchase prices of major defense equipment in the initial budget for fiscal 2024, approved in March, have ballooned by about 1.5 times the levels from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2022.
Seemingly unrealizable dream of a Middle East settlement has been Trump’s persistent hope since he first became president in ...
Brent futures had already slid 7% on Monday and U.S. shares jumped after Iran made a token retaliation against a U.S. base ...