As well as a new sub-launched cruise missile, Japan will be getting upgraded versions of its Type 12 anti-ship missile for ...

As part of an ongoing effort to increase its defense strategy, Japan will be adding American-designed missiles to its Destroyers. Here's what you need to know.

On Thursday, 18 pieces of ordnance believed to date to WWII were detonated on land at Kubasu Beach on Miyakojima, an island ...

According to a map provided by Japan’s Defense Ministry, joint air and missile defense training events will take place in the ...

Japan’s largest minelayer practiced defending a chain of strategic islands near Taiwan last week in what Tokyo described as a ...

Japan plays a key role in containing China under the U.S. island chain strategy, which conceives three north-south defensive ...

Japan’s fleet of V-22 Ospreys will move this summer to a permanent base on Kyushu, keeping to a schedule the Ministry of Defense announced two years ago, according to Defense Minister Gen Nakatani.

Japan plans to send two Ground Self-Defense Force personnel to Lithuania to teach Ukrainian soldiers how to remove land mines ...

The Defense Ministry said it will create an elite unit within the Ground Self-Defense Force to respond swiftly to emergencies ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The Japanese army on Wednesday began deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys on a newly opened permanent base in southwestern Japan, in the country’s latest move to strengthen its ...

Japan's Ministry of Defense (MoD) is conducting trials of Rheinmetall Mission Master SP and Milrem THeMIS unmanned ground ...

CAMP ITAMI, Japan – Trilateral forces, The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), 1st (Australian) Division (1 (AS) Div), and U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) service members held a Combined Arms ...