Military vessels from Japan and other countries sail in Sagami Bay during the International Fleet Review, held by Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force. STR/JIJI Press/AFP/Getty Images Japan’s ...

Japan’s security independence is advancing under the Trump administration, but Tokyo remains fully committed to the alliance.

On September 18, 1931, the explosion of the Japanese-owned railway track near the city of Mukden, Manchuria in northeastern ...

The manpower shortage comes as Japan continues to clash with China over their rival territorial claims, such as in the Diaoyu ...

Security interests are reshaping Japan’s developmental aid policy and its commitment to the liberal international order.

Raising the ratio to 2 percent would likely make Japan the third largest military power following the United States and China. That would radically change Japan’s international image as a peace ...

While Japan won’t walk away from its alliance with the United States, the linchpin of the Asian country’s diplomacy and ...

An American military base in Japan on Tuesday ... what a May 6 news release called a demonstration “highlighting the strength of America’s integrated air and missile defense and its commitment ...

In the smoldering wake of World War II, few places bore the scars of conflict like Japan. Cities lay in ruins, infrastructure ...

This comes as China is modernizing its military power rapidly while North Korea continues its nuclear and missile programs. Before the Japanese government released its national security strategy ...

Military contacts between China and Russia are "increasing in frequency," the Japanese government said in its latest foreign policy report released Tuesday, in the first such wording about the growing ...