Japan ready to join Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’: Report

TOKYO: Japanese premier Sanae Takaichi is expected to announce Tokyo’s participation in the “Golden Dome” US missile defence system when she meets President Donald Trump next week, a report said Friday (Mar 13). Billed as a next-generation missile defence shield, the Golden Dome for America “will progressively protect our nation from aerial attacks from any foe”, including through space-based interceptors and sensors, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said last year. Citing several unnamed government sources, Japan’s Yomiuri daily said Takaichi is expected to discuss the initiative with Trump during their planned Mar 19 meeting in Washington, and convey to him Japan’s…