President Donald Trump has invited Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to visit the United States this year.

Japan is accelerating a military buildup program designed to double annual arms spending. The country also is revising a ...

On 9 December 2025, at Tsuiki Air Base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), at least 16 F-2 fighter aircraft were ...

Japan is facing its most complex security environment in generations, pointing to Russia, China, North Korea and uncertainty ...

China’s aircraft carrier Liaoning and three destroyers spent nearly a week operating around Japan’s southwestern islands, flying roughly 100 J-15 and helicopter sorties and even allegedly locking fire ...

The Liaoning and Chinese and Russian bombers turned back in the Pacific Ocean near the coasts of Shikoku and the Kii ...

Japan maintains that its largest surface warships are helicopter destroyers, yet their size, full-length flight decks, and ...

Fighter in service for more than a decade often patrols potential conflict hotspots including the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.

Under the new budget, more than 970 billion yen ($6.2bn) is earmarked to enhance Japan’s “standoff” missile capabilities.

US President Donald Trump was met with cheers as he made a theatrical entrance in front of US troops aboard the USS George Washington at a naval base in Japan on Tuesday, October 28. Trump arrived to ...

China plans to field a force of nine aircraft carriers by 2035, according to a Defense Department report on Beijing’s ...