Shinjiro Koizumi

Securing personnel is a major challenge amid Japan’s declining birth rate and aging population.

We are not considering recruiting foreign nationals into the Self-Defense Forces.

This deal will enable the ministry to move forward concretely with initiatives such as attracting private-sector companies.

The signing of this contract marks a significant milestone toward the development of this multifunctional integrated defense hub.

The Japanese military needs to be boosted with a 'sense of urgency and crisis'

The true source of anxiety in the Indo-Pacific is China itself

We will transform the organization so that we can respond to the most severe and complex security environment of the postwar period,

The bear mission aims to help secure people’s daily lives, but that service members’ primary mission is national defense.