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

In its 2025 white paper, Japan's Defense Ministry said the world faces the most perilous security environment since World War ...

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 ...

Russia operations and North Korean threats pose the greatest challenge to global order since World War II, in its annual ...

There is a proposal that Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines should be considered as a single theater of war.

Japan had initially planned the F-35Bs to support amphibious operations, but the initial six jets missed the target March ...

Recent Kyiv-Tokyo agreements show that the countries' partnership is not a one-time act of support, but a steady formation of a strategic alliance across many sectors.

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

US' policy of ambiguity towards Taiwan may have worked so far, but with the world order shifting and China sending ominous ...

The Asia-Indo-Pacific is no longer a distant geopolitical theater. It is the central arena of strategic competition, ...

Allies like Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Australia have no choice but to try and meet the president’s conditions ...

Elbridge Colby’s memo highlighting U.S. weapons shortages influenced the decision to pause some arms shipments to Ukraine.