Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and ...

Japanese forces tracked Chinese ships and aircraft transiting through Japan’s southwest region during the same period, while ...

On 9 December 2025, at Tsuiki Air Base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), at least 16 F-2 fighter aircraft were ...

If you look closely at the rear deck of the JS Asuka, you’ll spot something new. That innocent-looking dome looks like a GPS ...

Japan has kicked off a project to field a new coastal, anti-ship cruise missile as part of the country's Defense Buildup Program. The “new SSM [surface-to-ship missile]" represents one of many new ...

On 19th December, the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) of the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced the ...

The ship's movements follow China's ICBM test on Wednesday. TOKYO -- The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Sazanami passed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, marking the first time a ...

ISTANBUL — A Turkish military vessel set sail April 8 for a nearly five-month deployment to Japan and other nearby countries. The navy deployed its Ada-class corvette TCG Kinaliada to both celebrate ...

Norman Alley was napping on deck when Japanese bombs started falling. The Universal News cameraman grabbed his camera and ...

The image show a live-fire test of the upgraded Type 12 Surface-to-Ship missile conducted between October and November 2020 in California. The Japanese ...

Armchair war historians like to think they know all there is to know about the Second World War. They often fancy their knowledge of all things Barbarossa to Berlin and Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima as ...

Trainees from Japan’s Coast Guard Academy are in Hawaii as part of a training cruise that is taking them across the Pacific. They’re sailing on the Japanese coast guard’s training vessel the Kojima, ...