Tokyo: A US military Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft made an emergency landing at Hanamaki Airport in Iwate prefecture, northern ...

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force is taking part in a US-led exercise called Resolute Force Pacific for the first time amid a ...

By bno - Taipei Office For much of the post-war era, Japan’s armed forces - officially termed the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) - ...

The Japan Self-Defense Force has missed its recruitment goal for the last several years and is struggling to meet those goals ...

While often overshadowed by China’s massive and rapidly growing fleet, Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) is a ...

The bills under “the Legislation for Peace and Security” (hereafter “the Legislation”), a series of defense policy reforms passed in Japan’s Diet (parliament) last fall, went into effect in March 2016 ...

A new contested logistics deal could make it easier for the U.S. Navy to resupply and rearm warships should a conflict break ...

Japan had initially planned the F-35Bs to support amphibious operations, but the initial six jets missed the target March ...

The Japanese army has begun deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys on a newly opened permanent base in the southwest, the latest ...

Soldiers from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) load equipment inside an AAV-P7/A1 assault amphibious vehicle as they prepare to depart the ...

For the second time in Australia, the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) has conducted a live fire demonstration of ...

Rina Gonoi vowed to bring her alleged tormentors to justice after she says she endured physical and verbal sexual abuse while serving in Japan’s Self-Defense Force.