Readout of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's Meeting With Japanese Defense Minister Shinjirō Koizumi

View Online IMMEDIATE RELEASE Readout of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's Meeting With Japanese Defense Minister Shinjirō Koizumi Jan. 15, 2026 Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell provided the following readout: On Jan. 15, Secretary Hegseth met with Japan's defense minister, Shinjirō Koizumi, at the Pentagon. The two leaders affirmed the critical role of the U.S.-Japan alliance to deterring aggression in the Indo-Pacific and discussed Japan's efforts to increase its defense spending and rapidly strengthen its capabilities. Secretary Hegseth and Minister Koizumi also agreed to continue upgrading alliance command-and-control architectures, make bilateral training and exercises more realistic, improve alliance force posture and presence – including in Japan's Southwest Islands – and maintain close cooperation on defense industrial base matters.

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