China is ramping up its military actions and raising tensions in the Nansei Islands. Japan is bolstering its presence in response. Locals are caught in the middle.

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, French CSG and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer carrier JS Kaga (DDH-184) ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has launched the fourth Hibiki-class ocean surveillance vessel on order for the Japan ...

Izumo-class helicopter carrier has completed its first multilarge deck exercise with foreign navies since being upgraded ...

Japan and the Philippines are likely to establish a new framework for consultations between their defense authorities with a view to exporting defense equipment from Japan to the Philippines, Japanese ...

TOKYO — The United States has approved a $900 million missile sale to Japan, the third major arms purchase of its kind by the American ally in a little over a year.

Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit detonated the shells a mile offshore of Nakagusuku Bay Port, according to a ...

Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force and the navies of the United States and France have conducted their first joint exercises involving aircraft carriers.

The PN explained that the United States Navy, Marine Nationale, and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force are conducting naval exercises in the Philippine Sea as part of the “Exercise Pacific ...

Japan is donating two new patrol vessels to Indonesia under its Official Security Assistance program as Tokyo seeks to ...

Tokyo, Feb. 12 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force will dispatch its Mogami-class frigate JS Noshiro to Australia for joint exercises, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani ...

Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) has ordered 17 Boeing CH-47 Block II Chinooks (Extended Range) as part of an effort to ...