Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishGovernor Gento Koga used a Tokyo news conference to argue for revising the Japan-US status of forces agreement, drawing questions from the US military's own newspaper.
The government will commit to stockpiling ammunition and missiles in peacetime and securing a wartime production surge, with some in the ruling camp wary of language that assumes war.
Central Command says the St. Kitts and Nevis-flagged vessel left an Iranian port and ignored warnings; it is the fifth ship disabled since July.
The prime minister's vow to keep cooperating with the US president drew online criticism and a call from former lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa for her to resign, after Democrats won both chambers.
The Democratic Party took back the House and Senate, a result the Kyoto Shimbun calls a verdict on Trump's tariffs, the Iran strikes and inflation — and a cue for Tokyo to widen its options beyond Washington.
