Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has just visited Washington, drawing attention to how Japan is remaking its national security policy. He’s winning applause from Washington and hearing anguish in ...

Key Points and Summary: Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has introduced "mini-aircraft carriers," such as the JS Kaga and JS Izumo, refitted to deploy F-35B stealth fighters. These vessels ...

The testing, supported by the US Navy, will happen in October and November. It's the latest milestone in ongoing US-Japanese cooperation on F-35s and flattops. F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets ...

U.S. Forces Japan and the U.S. Fifth Air Force hold a change of command ceremony at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on October 8, 2024. The new commander of U.S. forces in Japan, Lt. Gen. Stephen Jost, ...

Japan’s expanded military ties with the Philippines are a logical progression of its ties to the United States. “Politics makes strange bedfellows” and “alliances are marriages of convenience, not ...

Japan's armed forces have been testing Starlink satellite communications service, run by billionaire Elon Musk's space exploration company SpaceX (SPACE), Bloomberg News reported citing the country's ...

Many Japanese academics are up in arms over mounting pressure to change the language in the Japanese Constitution that forbids the country to maintain armed forces. Kenzaburo Oe, who is a Nobel ...

In recent years, Japan has significantly bolstered its defense budget, responding to the escalating assertiveness of China in the region and the frequent missile tests conducted by North Korea.

August 30, 2023: For more than a decade Japan has been moving away from its post-World War II military policy of concentrating on self-defense policies. While the Japanese economy flourished after ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is looking “very closely” at a proposal to put a four-star general in charge of U.S. Forces Japan. The secretary told reporters about the ...

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is preparing for a slate of activities this year following what it described as a ...