An important week is upcoming with central banks like the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank making policy decisions. Major companie...

ECB President Christine Lagarde stated on Wednesday that France must tackle its ballooning debt and deficit through domestic fiscal consoli...

The Asian Games held in Nagoya featured 11,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions. China topped the medal table with 169 gold medals wh...

Japan's government promotes its military expansion as a path to economic growth. The defense white paper advocates for technology and start...

Japan's Cabinet approved a record defense budget of over 9 trillion yen for fiscal 2026. This plan aims to enhance strike-back capabilities...

Global defence spending has reached record levels in 2025 as nations prioritise military strength amid shifting geopolitical tensions. The ...

Japan approved a record defence budget for 2025, focusing on long-range missiles and deploying Tomahawks. The budget includes spending on m...

Japan has approved a new national security strategy this week, which includes a pledge to have the potential to "counterstrike" to deter en...

The procurement plan unveiled in the Ministry of Defence's annual budget request represents a clear departure from a decades-long range lim...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, meeting U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday, pledged to "substantially increase" Japan's defence budget.

The 1.05 trillion yen (USD8.6 billion) host nation support budget covers the purchase of advanced arsenals used in their joint military exe...

Kishida said the security situation around Japan is rapidly changing and that "the reality is severer than ever," with North Korea continui...

The Defense Ministry says its "defense power reinforcement and acceleration package" is designed to speed up deployment of some of the key ...

Japan's military spending and capabilities have grown continuously since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December 2012, ris...

The Ministry of Defence budget proposal released on Friday calls for defence spending to rise 2.1 percent to 5.3 trillion yen ($48 billion)...

The website Global Firepower ranks the most powerful militaries in the world based factors, including available manpower, total labor force...

Defence spending in China and four other Asian countries doubled over 10 years and will surpass Europe's military expenditures this year.