The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) have pursued a number of doctrinal changes intended to improve their offensive posture—raising questions about their adherence to the country’s pacifist ...

KUMAMOTO -- The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatics team will perform over the city of Kumamoto this April ...

U.S. Marines observed Japan’s only amphibious unit carry out a beach-landing drill this week as part of joint exercise, Iron ...

Japan's Defense Ministry is stepping up preparations to send Self-Defense Forces aircraft to evacuate Japanese nationals from the Middle East amid rising tensions in the region following the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's F-15 fighters holding a joint military drill with the U.S. B-52 bomber on Dec. 10, 2025. (Japan ...

While most Japanese lawmakers support revising the constitution, they are more divided on what, exactly, needs to change.

An explanatory diagram on the establishment of the new Fleet Surface Force. The JMSDF plans to establish the “Fleet Surface ...

Japan’s government audit arm has sharply criticized the United States for failing to deliver a large portion of military equipment that Tokyo purchased under long-term defense contracts worth ...

This year’s exercise takes place as Japan faces “the most severe security environment” since the end of World War II, Maj. Gen. Toshikatsu Musha, commander of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s ...

The Philippine, US and Japanese militaries conducted joint exercises this week over the Bashi Channel that separates the ...

A RANKING Philippine Navy (PN) official on Wednesday said the just concluded 15th multilateral maritime cooperative activity (MMCA), held in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) and up to Batanes Group of ...