The Japanese Ministry of Defense has stopped disclosing the gender of Self-Defense Forces (SDF) members subject to ...

U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self Defense will join for a bilateral exercise on Japan’s southwest islands, Japanese ...

Kyoto-based Mitsufuji got its start nearly 70 years ago as a weaver of decorative belts for kimonos. One day soon, it could ...

National Security Strategy called for an overhaul of Japan’s cybersecurity posture. This might be the year the legislation ...

Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force will begin receiving MQ-35 V-BAT drones, manufactured by the American company Shield AI, ...

Japan saw scrambles by the Japan Air Self Defense Force decrease for the first three quarters of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 ...

Approved on Dec. 27, 2024, the upcoming defense budget beginning April 1 is up 9.4% to a record 8.7 trillion yen, the ...

Japan's concerns over a potential U.S. retreat from the region have grown amid China's increasingly assertive military posture.

US-based Shield AI has secured a contract to supply an undisclosed number of its V-BAT small unmanned aircraft systems (sUASs ...

By contrast, there is “GCAP silence” in Japan, says one local observer of business ties between Japan and the West.

PFAS was found at five places near Misawa Air Base during a December survey, the Aomori Prefectural Office website said.