.@POTUS meets with fellow Quad Leaders, @ScottMorrisonMP of Australia, @narendramodi of India, and @JPN_PMO of Japan "to discuss the war against Ukraine and its implications for the Indo-Pacific." He's also holding a Cabinet meeting at 2pm
A virtual summit today between Biden and the leaders of Japan, Australia and India within the "Quad" alliance
Japanese Ministry of Defense: A Russian helicopter violated the airspace in the north of the country
Blinken: Japan and our allies will impose high costs on Russia that will destroy its ability to wage war on Ukraine
Japan joined Western allies to block many Russian banks from SWIFT. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said that Japan will put sanctions on Russia's dictator Putin and extend $100 million in emergency humanitarian aid to Ukraine
1 год назадJapan's Defense Ministry has released an image of where North Korea's latest missile launch landed
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 54 km ESE of Yamada, Japan
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 97 km ESE of Namie, Japan
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"
Regarding the situation in Ukraine, Japan's Prime Minister spoke via phone with Germany's Chancellor Scholz - Kyodo
Yesterday, the JASDF's fighters scrambled to cope with a suspected intrusion into Japan's airspace over the East China Sea
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 33 km ESE of Ōarai, Japan
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 63 km SE of Toba, Japan
Earthquake of magnitude 5.1 - 38 km ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 34 km SE of Shizunai-furukawachō, Japan
1 год назадThere'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
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
Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 65 km S of Kushiro, Japan
Провокационные действия корабля ВМС США создали угрозу национальной безопасности России, заявили в Минобороны РФ
Минобороны РФ вызывало военного атташе США из-за обнаружения американской атомной подлодки в территориальных водах РФ
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
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"
