NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says he needs Japan's strength and defense industry to counter emerging threats - especially China. NHK WORLD's Sugita Sachiyo sat down with him to learn more.

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Amid a diplomatic crisis with Washington, Danish MPs are set to ratify the defense agreement signed in December 2023, which ...

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Ukrainian leader says Kremlin forces include 155 mercenaries from China as Moscow ‘systematically’ recruits citizens ...

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Kevin Ryan becomes the U.S. Army War College's first Fellow at the Baltic Defense College in Estonia. Ryan ...

NATO is a corpse. All that remains is the grotesque performance art of a diplomatic zombie stumbling from summit to summit, ...

Donald Trump has imposed a 104% tariff on some Chinese imports to the US, as well as further levies on around 60 countries the Trump administration calls the "worst offenders". Listen to the Trump 100 ...

As US President Donald Trump's pauses his recent barrage of tariffs on global trading partners, NATO allies are alerted to ...

The U.S. is no longer a dependable ally. The other members of the alliance must rise to the challenge.