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 ...

In doggedly resisting US prompts to boost defence spending by evoking a ‘neutralist’ foreign policy in his recent John Curtin ...

As the prime minister is criticised over the extent of his China sightseeing activities, the government insists it is playing ...

That is how McGeorge Bundy, President John F. Kennedy’s national security adviser, described the Anglo-American alliance. The “Special Relationship,” the exceptionally close collaboration forged durin ...

TOKYO — Japan cautioned against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity stretching from its southwestern coasts to ...

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