Three Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali (UNISSA) students left the country to participate in the JENESYS Inbound Programme: JENESYS2024 – JAPAN Students Conference.

Japan is gravely concerned about actions in the South China Sea that are raising tensions, and strongly opposes any unilateral attempt to change the status quo, its foreign minister said on Wednesday.

In a heated Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled the proposed defense secretary over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, asking him if he could name one m

The Earthquake Research Committee said it has increased its estimate of the probability to between 75 and 82 percent from between 74 and 81 percent previously. It concerns what is known as a subduction megathrust quake along the Nankai Trough, an 800-kilometer (500-mile) undersea gully running parallel to Japan's Pacific coast.

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The Vietnamese embassies in Singapore and Brunei and the Nguyen Du Lao-Vietnamese bilingual language school in Vientiane, Laos have organised activities for Vietnamese there to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

JAPAN will continue to provide security and official development assistance (ODA)  to boost Philippine maritime defenses, as the foreign ministers of both countries on Wednesday expressed concern about rising tensions in the South China Sea.

Hegseth responded at the heated Senate confirmation hearing that he couldn’t tell Duckworth the exact number of ASEAN nations, but that “I know we have allies in South Korea and Japan in AUKUS (a pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S.) with Australia.”

Mt. Lebanon native Katie Bluemling Sheldon was recently promoted to rear admiral in the U.S. She currently serves as vice commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, based in Yokosuka, Japan, an hour-and-a-half south of Tokyo.

TOKYO — Japan will expand an unprecedented military aid program, the first of its kind since World War II, to help the armed forces of like-minded countries like the Philippines deter threats to the rule of law in the Indo-Pacific,

China on Wednesday said its activities and claims over the South China Sea are legitimate and “completely justified”, reacting to the Quad Foreign Ministers’ assertions “strongly” opposing any unilateral actions that seek to change the status quo by force or coercion in the Indo Pacific region.

After the hour-long meeting, the four ministers reconfirmed the Quad Leadership Summit in India later this year