US-Japan Relations

US-Japan Relations

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's office, in Tokyo, Japan, on 21 October 2025. Photo: Reuters

Japan's Takaichi faces early test of defence ambitions with Trump visit

Sanae Takaichi has only a few days to prepare for her first face-to-face talks with Trump since becoming Japan's first female prime minister on Tuesday.

The US and Japan flags fly together outside the White House in Washington April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Biden to welcome Japan's Kishida and historic military reforms at White House

FILE PHOTO: The U.S. and Japan flags fly together outside the White House in Washington April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

US and Japan agree to step up cybersecurity cooperation

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo walk on stage to hold a joint news conference with Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry Koichi Hagiuda (not pictured), during the U.S.-Japan Economic Policy Consultative Committee (EPCC) meeting at the State Department in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

US, Japan to cooperate on semiconductors as part of new economic dialogue

The US and Japan flags fly together outside the White House in Washington April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Japan and US preparing statement promising to 'deter' China, Nikkei reports

A member of the Japanese Self-Defense Force’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade takes a position while U.S. Marine Corps members get out of its MV-22 Osprey during a joint airborne landing exercise with the U.S. Marine Corps in Gotemba, west of Tokyo, Japan March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Japanese, US marines practise airborne assaults in sign of deepening cooperation

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Photo: Collected

Sounding alarm on China, Japan and US vow to collaborate more on defence

The US and Japan flags fly together outside the White House in Washington 27 April, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

As hypersonic and space threats loom, US and Japan launch new defence ties

The US and Japan flags fly together outside the White House in Washington April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

US and Japan can take their time on China

Michael Hirsh/Deputy news editor, Foreign Policy/TBS Illustration

The summit that can’t fail

Photo: Reuters

Biden to welcome Japan's Suga as first guest and key ally in China strategy

US President Joe Biden. Photo: Bloomberg

Biden, Suga poised to present united front on Taiwan as China steps up pressure

FILE PHOTO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan December 4, 2020. Hiro Komae/Pool via REUTERS

Ahead of Biden meet, Japan PM says he aims to make alliance with US stronger