Japan To Expand Indo-Pacific Security Assistance Provision

Japan has announced plans to expand its official security assistance (OSA) network to include several new countries for fiscal 2025. This upcoming year will see Japan supply defense equipment to a landmark eight nations including Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, East Timor, Tonga, Thailand and Sri Lanka. In its previous two years of existence the OSA project had provided military assistance to Bangladesh, Djibouti, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia and...