His father, Nobuo Kishi, 63, a former defense minister, resigned from the seat, as well as his job as a close aide to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Feb. 3, citing illness. Four days later ...

Japan's Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi said the suspected ballistic missile had flown about 500 km (310 miles), Reuters reported. Why does North Korea keep launching missiles? According to one ...

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said at a Jan. 28 news conference that the ministry has yet to decide if it will accept personnel from Myanmar in the new fiscal year, which starts in April.

Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi told reporters that the cyberspace agreement aimed to address a “strong sense of urgency” over activities in the Indo-Pacific region that challenge the ...

During the wide-ranging talks, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin also condemned Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, calling it totally unacceptable as it ...

Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said at the beginning of his meeting with NATO Military Committee chief Rob Bauer that Japan hopes to strengthen its ties with European countries and welcomes ...

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi told a news conference that the government will stop using the popular term “omoiyari yosan” (sympathy budget) in referring to the host-nation support program ...

Nobuo Kishi, Lloyd Austin and Lee Jong-sup met June 11 on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue, a major annual security forum held here, to discuss the provocation from North Korea and other ...

Five of the missiles fired by China landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone off Hateruma, an island far south of Japan's main islands, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said. He said Japan ...

During “two plus two” security talks between Japan and the United States on Jan. 7, Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi expressed the government’s resolve to quickly build the base. The U.S. side ...

In one high profile case from August, someone created a Twitter account pretending to be former Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, now special adviser to the prime minister, and posted a tweet ...