Gabriel Dominguez

Following the Canadian Coast Guard’s first-ever port call in Japan, Ottawa is now in talks with regional partners to explore joint patrol missions as far away as the Philippines, according to Canada’s envoy to Tokyo. “I think the new resources […]

YOKOHAMA – A Canadian Coast Guard vessel has for the first time made a port call in Japan in a move experts say will set the stage for greater cooperation not only with Tokyo but also other regional partners as

The U.S. Coast Guard has been “advising and assisting” Manila in its missions to resupply the Philippine garrison at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea but has not been asked to provide escorts amid efforts “not to overly

Beijing delivered a strongly worded warning to Tokyo on Thursday after Japan a day earlier sent a Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel through the Taiwan Strait for the first time ever following a series of unprecedented Chinese military moves inside Japanese

Japan has for the first time ever sent a Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel through the Taiwan Strait, local media reported Thursday, in a move likely to ratchet up tensions with China. The MSDF destroyer Sazanami sailed through the waterway on

Leaders of the “Quad” countries pledged to launch joint coast guard patrols to monitor vessels fishing illegally in the Indo-Pacific, as U.S. President Joe Biden feted the Australian, Indian and Japanese leaders in a diplomatic push to further institutionalize the

Concerned about the worsening security situation in the Indo-Pacific, France and Japan are speeding up negotiations to finalize a visiting-forces pact within the coming months that could also facilitate Self-Defense Forces’ deployments to French territories in the Indian and Pacific

Maritime autonomous systems have been identified as an initial field Japan could collaborate in with the United States, Britain and Australia under their AUKUS security pact as the U.S.-led grouping also launches talks with Canada, New Zealand and South Korea

As negotiations on a Japan-Canada intelligence-sharing pact progress, the strategic partners are also examining other ways to ramp up defense and security cooperation, including in the fields of space, cybersecurity, industry and special forces operations, Canada’s defense minister said Friday.

North Korea is doubling down for “long-term nuclear confrontation” with the U.S. and South Korea, following the first table-top simulation drills by the allies’ new nuclear deterrence group. On Sunday, a day before the 76th anniversary of the country’s founding,