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Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles, centre left, and Japan's Defence Minister Gen Nakatani, centre right, take part in a ceremony ahead of a joint press announcement aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Mogami-class stealth frigate JS Mikuma at the JMSDF naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, Friday Sept. 5, 2025. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool Photo via AP)

Australia’s defense minister visits a frigate in Japan as the countries boost defense ties

By Mayuko Ono and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Two ships from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, JS Ise and destroyer JS Suzunami sail into Wellington, New Zealand to begin a three-day ceremonial port visit, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (Monique Ford/Stuff via AP)

Japanese warships visit New Zealand’s capital for the first time in a half-century

By Charlotte Graham-McLay - Associated Press

A F-2 fighter of Japan Air Self-Defense Force is seen at Tsuiki base, Fukuoka prefecture, southern Japan in March 2010. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan, U.K. and Italy agree to accelerate joint next-generation fighter jet project to replace F-2s

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries staff member stands next to the top of the first stage of a H3 rocket, inside the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works Tobishima Plant in Tobishima, Aichi prefecture Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Japan’s space agency says it hopes to forge a profitable launch business with its new H3 rocket

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A Patriot missile mobile launcher is displayed outside the Fort Sill Army Post near Lawton, Okla., on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Soldiers from Ukraine have been training on the weapon system at Fort Sill since January and will soon deploy to Ukraine with a Patriot missile battery. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy)

Tokyo to sell Patriot missiles to Washington to help reload U.S. stockpiles

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attends a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, on Dec. 16, 2022. Japan's defense spending will jump 20% to a record 6.8 trillion yen ($55 billion) next year as the country prepares to deploy U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles that can hit targets in China or North Korea under a more offensive security strategy. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Japan signs $2.8B long-range missile development deals

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 25, 2020 file photo, Engineers Mahmood al-Nasser, left, and Mohammad Nasser al-Emadi test the Emirates Mars Mission probe's &quot;flat sat,&quot; at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On Wednesday, April 14, 2021, the center announced a more ambitious timeline for sending its first rover to the moon, partnering with Japan’s ispace company to send the vehicle on an unmanned spacecraft by 2022, rather than 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

UAE sets new ambitious timeline for launch of moon rover

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2000, file photo, a Japan Air Self-Defense Forces F-2 jet fighter is seen in Toyoyamacho, Aichi Prefecture (state), central Japan. Japan's Cabinet approved a ninth straight increase in the nation's defense budget as the government bolsters funding to develop longer-range cruise missiles and stealth fighters to counter potential threats from China and North Korea. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan Cabinet OKs more defense funds amid potential threats

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan’s Cabinet adopts plan to bolster missile deterrence

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Protest outside Japan’s Mitsubishi over wartime forced labor

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2000, file photo, a Japan Air Self-Defense Forces F-2 jet fighter is seen in Toyoyamacho, Aichi Prefecture (state), central Japan. Japan has picked Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as a main contractor to develop the country's own next generation stealth fighter for launch in the 2030s, the defense minister said Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. The next generation stealth jet will replace F-2s that Japan co-developed with the U.S. They are due to be retired around 2035.(Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan picks Mitsubishi Heavy to develop own stealth fighter

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 11, 2019, file photo, a protester with a banner walks to attend a rally denouncing the Japanese government's decision on their exports to South Korea in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. The modern legacy of a dark chapter in Japan’s history, when hundreds of thousands of people were brought from the Korean Peninsula and other Asian nations to work in logging, in mines, on farms and in factories as forced labor, lives on in the companies that came to dominate the Japanese economy after World War II. Many of those companies are still facing demands for compensation that they say were settled by treaty decades ago. The sign reads &quot;The shameless Japanese company should immediately compensate for its war crimes in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Japan’s legacy of forced labor haunts ties with neighbors

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this April 21, 2020, photo, Italian-operated cruise ship the Costa Atlantica is anchored at a port in Nagasaki, southern Japan. Japanese officials said a few dozens of crew members on the cruise ship docked have tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, the day after a first case from the ship was reported. (Kyodo News via AP)

Asia Today: Cases on ship in Japan; India to use wristbands

Associated Press

Kim Sung-joo, center bottom, a victim of Japan’s forced labor, and their family members and supporters raise their hands in celebration after the Supreme Court's ruling ordering Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate them in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. South Korea's top court has ordered a Japanese company to compensate 10 Koreans for forced labor during Tokyo's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

S. Korea orders 2nd Japan firm to compensate forced laborers

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Japan's rocket H-2A is launched, carrying aboard a green gas observing satellite &quot;Ibuki-2&quot; and KhalifaSat, a UAE satellite, Tanegashima, southern Japan, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. The Japanese rocket carrying United Arab Emirates' first locally-made satellite has successfully lifted off from a space center in southern Japan. (Nozomi Endo/Kyodo News via AP)

Rocket carrying 1st UAE-made satellite launched from Japan

Associated Press

Ricketts touts Japanese investments with visiting delegation

Associated Press

Correction: Japan-Defense story

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 30, 2011 file photo, people walk on the sand near the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in San Clemente, Calif. An arbitration panel on Monday, March 13, 2017 awarded Southern California utilities $125 million in a lawsuit claiming that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries supplied faulty steam generators that helped lead to the closure of the San Onofre plant. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)

Panel gives small victory to utilities in nuke plant lawsuit

By ANDREW DALTON - Associated Press

Panel gives small victory to utilities in nuke plant lawsuit

By ANDREW DALTON - Associated Press

Feds say design flaw led to Calif. nuke plant woes

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press