South Korea will fully implement a key military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan as the two countries are seeking to mend ties.

The United States and South Korea hold a joint air exercise involving US strategic bombers, a day after North Korea fired a intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a "sudden launching drill".

Japanese people bid farewell to former prime minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday during a private funeral that came days after his assassination.

China says it has conducted a military exercise around Chinese Taipei as a "serious warning" to interactions between the US and the self-ruled island.

Japan’s Osaka prefecture is set to report a record-high of 6,000 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as the union government moves to impose tougher restrictions amid a rapid surge in the Omicron strain.

A joint press conference in Washington by the deputy foreign ministers of Japan, South Korea, and the US is canceled over a territorial dispute, with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman being left to answer questions on her own.

Officials from the US, South Korea, and Japan are preparing for a possible meeting next week in Tokyo to discuss North Korea, a report says.