23 November 2024
2 year ago
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 54 km ESE of Yamada, Japan
2 year ago
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 97 km ESE of Namie, Japan
2 year ago
Russian Ambassador to Japan: Russian forces deal safely with nuclear facilities
Japan to impose sanctions on Russia amid Ukraine crisis: PM Kishida "(Japan) will ban exports to and imports from the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as well as the issuance and trading of new Russian sovereign bonds in Japan"
2 year ago
Regarding the situation in Ukraine, Japan's Prime Minister spoke via phone with Germany's Chancellor Scholz - Kyodo
2 year ago
Yesterday, the JASDF's fighters scrambled to cope with a suspected intrusion into Japan's airspace over the East China Sea
2 year ago
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 33 km ESE of Ōarai, Japan
2 year ago
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 63 km SE of Toba, Japan
2 year ago
Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 - 38 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan
2 year ago
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 34 km SE of Shizunai-furukawachō, Japan
There's been some imagery going around social media that is allegedly the "counter-measure" Russia used to ward off what Moscow says was a US submarine in its territorial waters in the Pacific (see below). The US military now says it's classic Russian MOD misinformation
A total of 24 Russian warships have been operating in the Sea of Japan(East Sea) and the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk since Feb. 1, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday, in what defense chief Nobuo Kishi called part of "unusual" large-scale military exercises
2 year ago
Japan is ready to extend at least $100 million in emergency loans to Ukraine, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday, the Japanese government said in a summary of their phone call
US Department of State: .@SecBlinken met with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi and Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Chung to discuss the importance of trilateral cooperation to tackle the global challenges of the 21st Century
2 year ago
Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 65 km S of Kushiro, Japan
2 year ago
“The provocative actions of the US Navy vessel created a threat to the national security of Russia”, - said the Russian Defense Ministry
2 year ago
The Russian Defense Ministry summoned the US military attache because of the discovery of submarine in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation
2 year ago
Russian ministry of Defense says U.S. Virginia-class submarine was detected in Russian territorial waters near Kuril islands. Pacific Fleet Udaloy-class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov used special means and submarine retreated from the area
2 year ago
Japanese citizens should leave Ukraine immediately, advises @MofaJapan_jp
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the Quad's cooperation on the region's COVID response was "most critical", with cyber and maritime security, infrastructure, climate action and disaster relief - especially after the recent Tonga volcanic eruption - also in focus
Asked by reporters if confrontation with China in the Indo-Pacific was inevitable, Blinken replied "nothing is inevitable". "Having said that, I think we share concerns that in recent years China has been acting more aggressively at home and more aggressively in the region
Foreign ministers of the so-called Quad, the informal grouping of the four countries, vowed to work on humanitarian relief, terrorism, cyber and maritime security and global supply chain challenges
In a meeting among its foreign ministers, US, Australia, Japan and India on Friday pledged to deepen cooperation to ensure the Indo-Pacific region was free from "coercion", a thinly-veiled swipe at China's growing economic and military expansion
The defense chiefs of South Korea, the US, and Japan commit to "closely cooperate" against North Korean missile threats and hold an in-person ministerial meeting during a trilateral phone call. The phone call intends to "send a coordinated message"
2 year ago
Japan is artificially whipping up hysteria around the ownership of the Kuril Islands - Russian Foreign Ministry
US and Japan announce deal to remove Trump-era tariffs from about 1.25 million metric tons of Japanese steel imports annually
Defense officials from the US, Japan, and ROK "conducted a call today to discuss regional security affairs," according to @DeptofDefense
2 year ago
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 48 km ESE of Kamaishi, Japan
U.S. and Japanese warships operate in Philippine Sea, China launched 39 aircraft near Taiwan in response2 year ago
U.S. and Japanese warships operate in Philippine Sea, China launched 39 aircraft near Taiwan in response
VIDEO: 2 U.S. Carrier Groups, 2 Amphibious Ready Groups Drill with F-35s, Japanese Ships in the Philippine Sea - USNI News2 year ago
VIDEO: 2 U.S. Carrier Groups, 2 Amphibious Ready Groups Drill with F-35s, Japanese Ships in the Philippine Sea - USNI News