Beijing placed the restrictions on 20 Japanese entities with ties to the defense industry, the latest ratcheting up of its ...

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

BEIJING — Beijing has escalated a months-long spat with Tokyo by imposing export restrictions on Japanese companies and ...

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

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 ...

As tensions rise in the Western Pacific, Japan is reshaping its army for a fight across remote islands stretching toward China. Faced with the threat of invasion in the southwest, the Japanese Ground ...

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 ...

China’s defence outlays are closely watched as a barometer of Beijing’s strategic priorities as it presses ahead with ...

China imposed export restrictions on dozens of Japanese firms on Tuesday that it said were involved in building up Tokyo's military, escalating a months-long row. The measures announced on Tuesday ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has taken his purge of the country’s military to the very top, targeting his own highest-ranked ...

An artist's impression of Mitsubishi Electric's next-generation defence satellite communications system. (Mitsubishi Electric) Japan's Ministry of Defense (MoD) has awarded a contract worth JPY123.5 ...

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii – Senior Army and Marine land force leaders from the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines, gathered in Tokyo, Japan, for the Land Forces Dialogue (LFD), a ...