Japan sending troops to train with NATO’s Ukraine mission

Tokyo on Friday announced it would deploy four members of the Japanese military to Germany to train with NATO’s Ukraine mission. Japanese Defense Minister Shinjirō Koizumi said the soldiers from Japan’s Self-Defense Forces would be tasked with analyzing the new fighting tactics employed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Japan’s current government has pushed for rearmament amid heightened tensions with Russia and China. “The deployment marks a further deepening of cooperation between Japan and