TOKYO — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Japan on Sunday an "indispensable partner" in deterring growing Chinese assertiveness in the region and announced upgrading the U.S. military ...

TOKYO — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Japan on Sunday an “indispensable partner” in deterring growing Chinese assertiveness in the region and announced upgrading the U.S. military ...

one of the two largest patrol ships built by Japan for the Philippine coast guard. The Magbanua has figured in increasingly hostile faceoffs with the Chinese coast guard in the South China Sea and ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Sunday a plan to upgrade the U.S. military command in Japan, a country he described as indispensable in combating Chinese aggression. "We share a ...

She majored in Japanese at her Chinese university before coming to Japan to study business management. Her favorite Japanese word is “mamoru,” meaning “to protect.” To Lin, it represents ...

Hegseth, in Tokyo on Sunday, called Japan an "indispensable partner" in deterring Chinese assertiveness and announced an upgrade of the U.S. military command in Japan to a new "war-fighting ...