Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi met with his Philippine counterpart Gilberto Teodoro in Manila and agreed to establish a working group for the matter.
In late April, the government revised the Three Principles on Transfer of Defence Equipment and Technology, which govern the export of defence equipment and set out operational…
Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, currently visiting the United States, reaffirmed that Japan will promote Japan-U.S. defence cooperation in the shared awareness that the…
Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi and Australian defense minister Richard Marles met in Malaysia. The two shared serious concerns about China’s aggressive maritime expansion in…