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Gen Nakatani (中谷 元, Nakatani Gen, born 14 October 1957) is a Japanese politician who was Director General of the Japan Defense Agency (now Japan Ministry of Defense) in the first cabinet of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2001-2002 and was appointed the Minister of Defense by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2014.
The launch time is also the longest ever for a North Korean missile, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said. Japanese officials said that the missile landed outside the country’s exclusive ...
Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said Japan strongly condemns the North's action, which threatened not only Japan but also the international community. He said the flight time was likely the longest ...
“The flight time was the longest ever. Possibly the newest missile ever,” Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the missile was fired at ...
North Korea launches an intercontinental ballistic missile on a "lofted trajectory" toward the Sea of Japan. Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani says that this was the longest-ever launch of a North Korean ICBM, lasting 87 minutes, marking significant progress in range compared to previous tests.
Japan's main goal of national defense is the prevention of indirect as well as direct aggression from outside enemies. The Japanese government reformed the Defense Agency to the Ministry of Defense with a ceremony that was attended by then Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and the then-new Minister of Defense Fumio Kyuma.
The defence ministers of Australia, Japan and the United States will meet in the Australian city of Darwin on Sunday to discuss continued military cooperation, Australia's Defence Minister Richard ...
In November 2015, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said he would consider the U.S. deploying the THAAD in Japan to counter the threat of North Korean ballistic missiles. [151] By October 2016, Japan was considering procuring either THAAD or Aegis Ashore to add a new missile defense layer. [ 152 ]