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 ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is looking “very closely” at a proposal to put a four-star general in charge of U.S. Forces Japan. The secretary told reporters about the ...

Japan’s expanded military ties with the Philippines are a logical progression of its ties to the United States. “Politics makes strange bedfellows” and “alliances are marriages of convenience, not ...

The testing, supported by the US Navy, will happen in October and November. It's the latest milestone in ongoing US-Japanese cooperation on F-35s and flattops. F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets ...

TOKYO—The Pentagon will upgrade and expand its three-star command in Japan to handle operational control of U.S. forces based there, part of an effort to deepen ties between the U.S. and Japanese ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Defense Ministry acknowledged it failed to meet recruitment goals for the Self-Defense Forces in recent years, as the country seeks to bolster its military amid growing threats from ...

In this image made from a video provided by the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS), a Chinese coast guard vessel, left, fires a powerful water cannon on a Philippine bureau of ...

Filipino and Japanese naval and air units carried out their third bilateral maritime cooperative activity (MCA) in the West ...

President Donald Trump spoke to U.S. service members aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington in Yokosuka, Japan, Tuesday morning to promote his administration's "peace through ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said it spotted for the first time Tuesday an armed Chinese coast guard ship near islands at the center of a long-running territorial dispute between the two Asian giants. Chinese ...

Lance Corporal Liam O’Brien, a paratrooper from Hebburn, is training alongside the Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF) as part of ‘Exercise Vigilant Isles’. The 28-year-old, who is now based ...