By bno - Taipei Office For much of the post-war era, Japan’s armed forces - officially termed the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) - ...

Japan isn’t allowed to have aircraft carriers—so they built them anyway. Disguised as “helicopter destroyers,” the Izumo-class ships reveal a clever workaround of constitutional limits, global ...

Japan has warned of escalating military threats from China in a new defense report. The report highlights China's growing ...

Japan's defence ministry plans to acquire six shipborne small UAVs in fiscal year 2025 as part of a broader strategy to ...

Officials in Tokyo released their Defense of Japan 2025 white paper this week with findings the international community is ...

A highly visible missile base on Okinawa is part of a Japanese defense buildup made amid fears of Beijing’s growing power and questions about U.S. commitment.

The Japanese military is particularly vulnerable to the consequences of demographic change. Since its founding in 1954, the force has rarely met its recruitment targets, and decades of economic ...

Japan’s army has begun relocating its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft to a new base on the southern island of Kyushu, part of ...

China said the airspace violation occurred when the plane's pilot took emergency measures due to turbulence, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.

Japan will export used destroyers to the Philippines, Reuters reported, citing Japan's Yomiuri newspaper on Sunday, to ...

Japan has test-fired a missile on Japanese territory for the first time as the country accelerates its military buildup to deter China. The Type 88 surface-to-ship, short-range missile was tested ...

The decision to use atomic bombs made sense to U.S. military planners at the time, who could even see it as a life-saving strategy or at least the lesser of evils.