Tokyo and Washington agreed Friday to boost joint production of defence equipment including missiles, and expand their ...

A fundamental change came in December 2022 when former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government adopted a security strategy ...

Japan is barreling forward with efforts to significantly boost its military capabilities to stand up to China's growing threats by doubling annual arms spending. The goal comes as Tokyo's main ally, ...

China has banned exports to Japan of dual-use goods for military purposes. The move comes at a time of heightened tensions ...

The Philippines and Japan on Thursday signed an agreement allowing for the resupply of fuel and ammunition to each other's forces.

Analysts hold out little hope that security pressures will ease, given US insistence that regional allies boost first island ...

Speaking at a joint briefing in Manila on Thursday, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said the new Acquisition and ...

Two Japanese soldiers died this week of lightning strikes during training in western Japan, a spokesman said Thursday. Sgt. Kento Tanitsu, 25, and Sgt. Ayu Kubota, 21, of the Western Army Tank Unit, ...

Chinese officials banned exports of some rare earth minerals and goods that might have military use following comments by ...

The new deal will support the implementation of the two nations’ Reciprocal Access Agreement, which came into force in ...

TOKYO (AP) — An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan's southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...