German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have agreed to boost security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, a region which has seen increasing military assertiveness from China. “As the international community faces severe challenges, such as Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East, and it becomes increasingly clear that the security of the European Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans is indispensable, cooperation and collaboration between Japan and Germany is becoming more and more important in order to maintain and strengthen a free and ope…