one of the two largest patrol ships built by Japan for the Philippine coast guard. The Magbanua has figured in increasingly hostile faceoffs with the Chinese coast guard in the South China Sea and ...

TOKYO—Japan is planning a multibillion-dollar network of small satellites to monitor ships and military sites, its latest response to a barrage of pressure from China that includes a recent ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Sunday a plan to upgrade the U.S. military command in Japan, a country he described as indispensable in combating Chinese aggression. "We share a ...

She majored in Japanese at her Chinese university before coming to Japan to study business management. Her favorite Japanese word is “mamoru,” meaning “to protect.” To Lin, it represents ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top government spokesperson said Tuesday a Chinese military aircraft had briefly entered Japanese airspace the day before, calling the incident an “absolutely ...

You can get in touch with Ryan by emailing r.chan@newsweek.com. Japan's military intercepted Chinese warships in waters near Taiwan, as Tokyo's latest defense white paper warned of tensions ...

The two-minute incursion into Japanese airspace by the Y-9 surveillance aircraft was the first by a Chinese military plane, local media reported - Copyright Japan's ...

TOKYO — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Japan on Sunday an “indispensable partner” in deterring growing Chinese assertiveness in the region and announced upgrading the U.S. military ...