Jan 16, 2025 · Previously, the Japanese embassy in Belgium also covered NATO. The new mission is led by Osamu Izawa, who takes over the role currently filled by the ambassador to Belgium, Masahiro Mikami. In Tokyo on Thursday, Japan and NATO held high-level consultations to discuss regional security issues in East Asia and Europe, according to the Foreign ...

Jan 31, 2023 · NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Tuesday (31 January 2023) for talks on shared security challenges and NATO’s deepening partnership with Japan. “No NATO partner is closer or more capable than Japan,” said the Secretary General.

May 10, 2023 · Japan is in talks to open a NATO liaison office, the first of its kind in Asia, the country’s foreign minister told CNN in an exclusive interview on Wednesday, saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...

May 10, 2023 · Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Koji Tomita has offered up the strongest hint that NATO will open a liaison office in Tokyo, telling reporters that Japan was “working in that direction,”...

Jul 9, 2024 · NATO members are reviving the idea of putting an office in Tokyo to give the alliance its first-ever permanent footprint in the Indo-Pacific region. “We have to move forward with a liaison...

Nov 17, 2023 · On 13 November, Mr van Weel participated in the NATO-Japan Symposium 2023 co-hosted by NATO, Tokyo University, Denmark and the EU. The event addressed the global and interconnected challenges of strategic competition and …

Jan 17, 2025 · Japan has formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tensions from Russia, China and North Korea....

Japan and NATO have ushered in a new era in bilateral relations with the completion of a deal that will see Tokyo step up cooperation with the world’s most powerful military alliance in several...

Jun 15, 2023 · NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg wants to ramp up the alliance's partnership with Indo-Pacific nations to counter China and Russia. But at least one European ally is not pleased with the plan.

May 3, 2023 · NATO is planning to open a liaison office in Japan, its first in Asia, to facilitate consultations in the region, the Nikkei Asia reported on Wednesday, citing Japanese and NATO officials.