Exclusive: Japan is in talks to open a NATO office in Tokyo, foreign minister says

Tokyo CNN — Japan is in talks to open a NATO liaison office, the first of its kind in Asia, the country's foreign minister told CNN in an exclusive interview on Wednesday, saying Russia's invasion of Ukraine has made the world less stable. "We are already in discussions, but no details (have been) finalized yet," Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Wednesday. Hayashi specifically cited Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year as an event with repercussions far beyond Europe's borders that forced Japan to rethink regional security. "The reason why we are discussing about this is that since the aggression…