Amid growing tensions between China and Japan over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on “intervening in a Taiwan contingency,” Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force base near Taiwan.

Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Tokyo is on guard for any potential security crisis in the region, while reiterating that the government’s stance on possible conflict over Taiwan hasn’t changed.

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has visited some of the islands in the region, only about a month after taking office.

President Donald Trump spoke with China’s Xi Jinping in a call that highlighted each side’s priorities for the relationship. It came as tensions are rising over Taiwan, the island democracy Beijing claims as its own,

China is trying to impose economic costs on Japan for wading into the issue of Taiwan. But experts say the escalating dispute could ultimately hurt China too.

PM Modi met Japan's PM Takaichi at the G20 Summit to discuss bilateral cooperation in innovation, defence, and trade.

If Japan’s hawkish new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, has her way, Japan’s security evolution will quicken. The country’s military build-up is a response to increasingly aggressive neighbours in China and North Korea and to an ever more unreliable ally in America.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is trying to raise his profile, including by actively disseminating through social media and other means information on the military movements of countries a