🇯🇵🇫🇷🇹🇼 Japan, France support Taiwan in collaboration

Japan and France agreed on a new road map for collaboration in the Indo-Pacific region which emphasizes the importance of maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and support for Taiwan’s meaningful participation in international organizations.

The agreement was announced following a telephone conversation between Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and French President Emmanuel Macron in the United Arab Emirates.

The two countries also said that they oppose any action that would increase tensions and endanger regional stability, freedom of navigation or the international order.

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🇺🇸🇰🇷🇯🇵🇰🇵 US, South Korean and Japanese security advisers meet to discuss North Korea

The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan are set to meet in Seoul on Friday and Saturday to discuss North Korea and other global issues as they step up trilateral cooperation.

Seoul's national security adviser, Cho Tae-yong, will hold bilateral talks with the White House's Jake Sullivan and Japan's Takeo Akiba on Friday, followed by a trilateral meeting on Saturday.

The meetings come after the three countries condemned North Korea's launch of its first reconnaissance satellite last month for violating multiple UN Security Council resolutions.

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🇺🇸🇰🇷🇯🇵 US, South Korea, Japan to step up actions on North Korea cyber threats

The United States, South Korea and Japan agreed new initiatives on Saturday to respond to North Korea's threats in cyberspace, including cryptocurrency abuses and space launches, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said.

His Japanese counterpart Takeo Akiba said North Korea's "illicit cyber activities" had emerged as most recent challenges, calling them "a source of funds" for the isolated state's nuclear missile development.

The three countries' coordinated efforts will target potential threats of economic coercion, having completed work on a supply-chain early warning system, agreed to at Camp David, in critical minerals and rechargeable batteries.

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🇨🇳🇯🇵 China, Japan trade blame over confrontation near disputed islands

China and Japan accused each other of maritime incursions after a confrontation between their coast guards in waters around disputed islands in the East China Sea.

China's coast guard said on Sunday that a Japanese fishing boat and several patrol vessels intruded the previous day into waters around the tiny islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan.

Japan's coast guard said on Saturday that two Chinese maritime patrol boats left Japan's territorial waters around the islands after receiving warnings. It said its patrol vessels were protecting a Japanese fishing boat that had been approached by the Chinese ships.

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🇯🇵🇬🇧🇮🇹 Japan, Britain, Italy agree to set up fighter jet plan liaison body

The defense ministers of Japan, Britain and Italy agreed to establish a coordinating body to proceed with their plan to jointly develop a next-generation fighter jet, a key step to putting the project into practice.

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and his British and Italian counterparts, Grant Shapps and Guido Crosetto, signed the treaty as they held talks in Tokyo to reaffirm the schedule for the warplane's deployment in 2035.

Under the coordinating entity's supervision, a consortium formed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Britain's BAE Systems Plc, and Italy's Leonardo S.p.A. aims to finish the design work by 2027.

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#Japan, South #Korea Scramble Jets To Intercept Russian, and Chinese Military Aircraft

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🇯🇵🇲🇾 Japan and Malaysia sign $2.8 mln maritime security assistance deal

Japan and Malaysia signed a security assistance deal on Saturday including a grant of $2.8 million to boost Malaysia's maritime security.

Japan will provide equipment such as rescue boats and supplies under the official security assistance deal, signed by the two countries' foreign ministers on the sidelines of a Tokyo summit marking 50 years of ties between Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Japan's aid to Malaysia follows similar deals with the Philippines and Bangladesh this year and is part of a plan announced in April for Japan to provide developing countries with financial assistance to bolster their defenses.

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🇮🇩🇯🇵 Indonesia and Japan agree on removing more trade barriers

Indonesia and Japan have agreed on the removal of more trade barriers, Indonesia's foreign minister said, after the two countries concluded negotiations on protocols to improve their bilateral economic agreements.

Japan will allow greater access for Indonesian products including by removing tariffs on processed fishery items and the two countries will improve relations in the banking sector.

Indonesian side highlighted the importance of Jakarta and Tokyo's agreement on critical minerals as Indonesia tries to position itself as an important player in the global electric vehicle (EV) battery supply chain

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🇯🇵 NATO delegation points to more ‘institutionalized’ Asia-Pacific ties

Last Monday, the ambassadors from the NATO countries – the US, Britain, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland – met Japanese foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa, with the NATO partners saying the deepening of Japan-Nato cooperation was “natural”.

In the same press release Kamikawa was quoted as saying: “The security of the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific is indispensable; therefore, coordination between Japan and NATO members sharing values and principles is getting more and more important”.

Nato’s cooperation with the Asia-Pacific region will be more “institutionalized” over time, threatening to have a “detrimental” impact on Beijing, analysts said.

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🇰🇷🇯🇵 South Korea, Japan resume high-level economic talks amid improved ties

South Korea and Japan will hold high-level economic talks on Thursday for the first time in eight years, Seoul's foreign ministry said, in a further sign of improving ties.

The talks, which first began in 1999, had been stalled since 2016 as relations between the two North Asian US allies took a hit over historical disputes stemming from Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of Korea.

The South Korean side will be represented by Kang Jae-kwon, deputy foreign minister for economic affairs, who will assess bilateral economic cooperation and discuss economic security policy with his Japanese counterpart Keiichi Ono, senior deputy foreign minister.

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🇯🇵🇺🇸🇺🇦 Japan prepares for missile shipments after easing arms export restrictions

Japan said on Friday it would prepare to ship Patriot air defense missiles to the United States after revising its arms export guidelines earlier that day, in the pacifist nation's first major overhaul of such export curbs in nine years.

The announcement comes as Japan, which had long adopted a stance of not allowing exports of deadly weapons, seeks to boost its defense industry amid an increasingly tense security environment in the Indo-Pacific.

Although Japan's new export controls still prevent it from shipping weapons to countries that are at war, it may indirectly benefit Ukraine as it gives the United States extra capacity to provide military aid to Kyiv.

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🇯🇵 Japan’s ex-defence chief pushes for more arms export rules easing

Japan should continue to loosen its restrictions on military exports to allow its own technology to be sold overseas, a former defense minister said as the country prepares to export missiles to the US in the first transaction of its type.

Itsunori Onodera, who is spearheading the move to enable defense exports from the long-pacifist country, said he would press ahead with ruling coalition discussions on broadening the scope of allowable exports.

While the loosening of the restrictions in the short term could help the US and European nations in providing arms to Ukraine, in the long term it could widen the opportunities for Japan to sell arms overseas.

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🇷🇺🇯🇵 Russia warns Japan over providing Patriot systems to Ukraine

A move by Japan to provide Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine will have "grave consequences" for Russia-Japan ties, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Although Japan's new export controls still prevent it from shipping weapons to countries that are at war, it may indirectly benefit Ukraine as it gives the United States extra capacity to provide military aid to Kyiv.

"The Japanese side loses control over the weapons with which Washington can now do whatever it wants," Zakharova told a weekly briefing. "It cannot be ruled out that under an already tested scheme Patriot missiles will end up in Ukraine."

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🇨🇳🇯🇵 China plans to keep ships near Senkakus 365 days in 2024

China plans to keep its ships near the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for 365 days in 2024 as leader Xi Jinping has called for bolstering Beijing's sovereignty claim over the islets, Kyodo sources said.

During a rare visit by Xi on November 29 to the command office for the East China Sea area of the China Coast Guard in Shanghai, the president pointed out the need for Beijing to "constantly strengthen" its efforts to safeguard the sovereignty of the islands, which China calls Diaoyu, the sources said.

The coast guard has subsequently drafted a plan to keep the presence of its ships near the islets every day next year and conduct inspections of Japanese fishing boats in the sea area, if necessary, to boost Beijing's sovereignty claim.

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🇯🇵 Japan, NATO weigh a dedicated line for sharing security information

Japan and NATO are in talks to establish a secure dedicated communication line for quickly sharing sensitive security information. The new mechanism under consideration is intended to respond to possible cyberattacks and disinformation plots by China and Russia.

Japan and NATO will likely implement a system similar to one used by NATO members, called BICES. That system is said to have high security capabilities and can share information from remote locations. Tokyo and NATO will consider multiple options, including connecting the hotline to BICES.

The new communication line would be used for discussions on security-related information from the staff level up to government heads. The two sides do not have a fixed time frame for setting up the hotline but will move forward as soon as possible.

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🇯🇵🇨🇳 Japan probing video of MSDF ship possibly taken by unauthorized drone

The Japanese Defense Ministry is examining a video that purports to show a Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel in port, suspecting it may have been taken by an unauthorized drone.

The video, which was posted on a Chinese social media platform, stirred controversy earlier this year as it appears to provide a clear shot from above of the deck of the helicopter carrier Izumo.

According to the sources, the ensuing analysis led the ministry to believe the video was possibly taken from a drone that flew without permission above the vessel while it was anchored at an MSDF base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. Unauthorized drone flights are prohibited there.

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