A fundamental change came in December 2022 when former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government adopted a security strategy ...

Japan is facing its most complex security environment in generations, pointing to Russia, China, North Korea and uncertainty ...

Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and missiles. As China’s dispute with Tokyo ...

Japan is barreling forward with efforts to significantly boost its military capabilities to stand up to China’s growing ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's military test-fired a missile on Japanese territory for the first time Tuesday, as the country accelerates its military buildup to deter China. The Type 88 surface-to-ship, ...

Tokyo joined Australia and several European nations in conveying concern to Beijing over the large-scale drills as Taipei ...

Japan said Wednesday that China’s military exercises around Taiwan ‘increase tensions’ across the Taiwan Strait. China’s ...

Japan now operates dozens of advanced F-35 stealth fighters—including the F-35B STOVL variant, based on its two quasi-aircraft carriers.

China's drills this week involved dozens of fighter aircraft and navy vessels conducting live-fire drills, simulating a ...

Sailors preform pre-flight checks on a CMV-22B Osprey, assigned to Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission (VRM) 50, on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), in the ...

TOKYO — An American professor and a Japanese author, speaking to reporters Friday in the Japanese capital, said their nations should take a less militaristic approach to challenges in the region.

-The two-stage plan, Operations Olympic and Coronet, would have involved more than twice the forces of the Normandy landings and was expected to be unimaginably costly. -Facing a fanatical defense, ...