Firefighters gather for a search operation as a Japanese air force plane crashed after taking off for a training flight, at a pond in Inuyama, central Japan, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Kyodo News via ...

Japan is deploying eight aircraft, including four F-15 fighter jets, to bases in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Key Point – Japan reworked two “helicopter destroyers” into F-35B–capable flattops, threading the needle between Article 9 constraints and rising Chinese pressure. Here’s how it became legal—and ...

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 ...

An urgent search is underway for two crew members reported missing after a Japanese air force training aircraft crashed following takeoff. The T-4 training jet, belonging to the Japan Air Self-Defense ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has demanded China stop flying its fighter jets abnormally close to Japanese intelligence-gathering aircraft, which it said was happening repeatedly and could cause a collision.

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

US air superiority has been unsurpassed for 30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The numbers are staggeringly in ...

According to sources, the two sides plan to have their leaders visit the Yokosuka base during U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

TOKYO — Japan grounded most of its aging military training aircraft on Wednesday after one of the planes crashed minutes after take off. Two crew are missing after the T-4 training aircraft operated ...