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 ...

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

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given ...

A powerful four-carrier fleet from the US, UK, and Japan has gathered in contested waters near the South China Sea, ...

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

U.S. and Japanese personnel took part in a drill to practice responding to a hypothetical radiation exposure involving a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

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

France will build a new aircraft carrier with a capacity for 30 fighter jets and 2,000 sailors, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday in what he described as "the display of our nation's ...

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz docked at Naval Base Kitsap on Tuesday after completing a 270-day deployment that likely was its last before retiring.

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