The recent calls from Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Shigeru Ishiba to form Asian North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ...

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s ruling party picked Shigeru Ishiba as its next leader, positioning an advocate of an “Asian NATO” to become prime minister in a surprise result that jolted the yen.

It is time to bring together a redoubtable defensive alliance that can deter Chinese hegemonic designs across the region—an ...

Ishiba said he will not bring up establishing an “Asian NATO” during his visit. He had repeatedly made this claim during the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election campaign.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba jetted off to the U.S. Thursday to discuss a changed security and economic landscape ...

Tokyo has, however, in the recent past said it does not want to build an “Asian NATO." Notably, reports emerged last year that NATO was mulling opening its first office in Asia which could be ...

His focus is on East Asian politics. He has covered foreign policy ... sabotage incidents targeting vital undersea cables in the NATO-dominated Baltic Sea. It comes just weeks after the alliance ...