North Korea on Friday lambasted Japan for describing it as an "urgent threat" in this year's defense white paper, calling it ...

Officials in Tokyo released their Defense of Japan 2025 white paper this week with findings the international community is ...

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

TOKYO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Japan on Friday unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China and ready it for ...

Japan’s new national security strategy and related defense plans herald a major military modernization effort in response to perceived threats in Northeast Asia, particularly China.

While Japan wants to demonstrate that it is a potent military force in its own right, it does not want to antagonize China, an important trade partner, or spook neighbors in Southeast Asia that ...

Japan’s plan to ramp up military spending, explained. US officials are sold on Japan’s new military posture. Japan’s public might not be.

The Japan Self-Defense Forces, established in 1954, ranks as the world’s fourth most-powerful military in conventional capabilities, with the eighth-largest military budget.

Development comes after Tokyo says Chinese military aircraft ‘made unusual close approaches’ toward Japanese aircraft - ...

Given the growing military strength of nearby China and also North Korea, Japan wants to upgrade the defense alliance with the United States by becoming a fuller-fledged military partner and ...

The Japanese military is particularly vulnerable to the consequences of demographic change. Since its founding in 1954, the force has rarely met its recruitment targets, and decades of economic ...