TOKYO >> Japan’s Cabinet OK’d a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets to other countries on Tuesday, its latest step away from the pacifist principles the country adopted at the end of ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' deal to furnish Australia with frigates marks the largest Japanese defense contract since Tokyo ...

Police raided two trading companies in Tokyo on Friday on suspicion they illegally exported equipment to North Korea that can be used to create biological weapons, a report said.

Policymakers in Tokyo could have been driven by security requirements and a need to keep the agreement secret due to strong domestic opposition against atomic weapons when they framed their post ...

As a whole, however, the report offers unmistakable support to allowing exports of lethal weapons including those Japan develops jointly with other countries, an apparent reference to Tokyo’s ...

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether ...

Tokyo intends to deploy Block I in FY 2026 and Block II by FY 2023. (Japan MoD/Kosuke Takahashi) The Northeast Asian country is looking to achieve this in two development stages, according to the MoD.

North Korea’s Weapons Program Fuels Tokyo’s Trade Spat With Seoul Accusations by Japan, which South Korea denies, have widened a diplomatic rift between the two U.S. allies By Mayumi Negishi and ...

MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. Tokyo’s principles do not allow it to send lethal weapons to Ukraine, Japanese Ambassador to Russia Akira Muto said in an interview with TASS.

TOKYO—A contentious accusation underpins a trade dispute between Japan and South Korea: Chemicals and equipment bought by South Korean companies from Japan may be helping North Korea build ...