Tokyo scrapped the meeting after the US asked Japan to boost defence spending to 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product
Japan has cancelled an annual high-level meeting with key ally the United States after the Trump administration demanded it spend more on defence.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth had been expected to meet Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Defence Minister Gen Nakatani in Washington on July 1 for the yearly security talks.
But Tokyo scrapped the meeting after the US asked Japan to boost defence spending to 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product, higher than an earlier request of 3 per cent, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
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