TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s first three F-35B stealth fighter jets arrived Thursday at an air base in the south of the country, its ...

The stealth fighters’ deployment to Misawa is part of a sweeping U.S. force realignment in Japan, which also includes the ...

The Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF), meanwhile, is equipped with around 330 combat aircraft, including over 150 F-15Js and a growing fleet of F-35As approaching 40. The F-35 programme is ...

By bno - Taipei Office For much of the post-war era, Japan’s armed forces - officially termed the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) - have occupied a peculiar place in global military discourse.