Defense Minister Kishi is coordinating to visit the United States early next month to meet with Defense Secretary Austin, and will comment on Russia's response to the military invasion of Ukraine, as well as the situation in China and North Korea. We would like to exchange and strengthen the Japan-US alliance.
According to government officials, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi is coordinating to visit Washington, USA early next month to meet with Secretary of Defense Austin.
At the meeting, it is our policy to confirm that Japan and the United States will work closely together in light of the ongoing military invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
We will also discuss the situation in North Korea, which repeatedly launches ICBM = intercontinental ballistic missile-class missiles, and China's military trends that are strengthening its marine advancement.
Minister Kishi will also explain the national security strategy that the Government of Japan will revise by the end of the year, which will help strengthen the deterrence and coping power of the Japan-US alliance.
The face-to-face meeting between the US and Japanese defense ministers will be the first in about a year since it was held in Japan last March.