The range lies adjacent to the service’s Camp Shizunai. It has the largest restricted water area available for use by the ...

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group concluded drills in the Philippine Sea with a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ...

A U.S. bomber’s emergency landing that shut down a shared runway and canceled commercial flights in northeastern Japan has ...

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani on Sunday pledged to strengthen the Self-Defense Forces' transport capabilities to remote ... posing serious security challenges for key U.S. ally Japan due to the ...

Currently in service with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) are the Type 80 and Type 93 air launched anti-ship missiles (designated ASM-1 and ASM-2 respectively) which are due to be ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will dispatch a Self-Defense Forces airplane carrying medicines and medical equipment to Myanmar, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Monday, as part of relief efforts to the ...

The Maritime Transport Group of the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) was formally stood up on Sunday in a ceremony overseen by Japan Defense Minister Gen Nakatani at the unit’s current and ...

Details of the mission, including the possibility of sending any Japan Self Defense Force members to Wiesbaden, were still to be discussed. But any Japanese cooperation was not expected to involve ...

and this year it would supply the Japan Self-Defense Forces for the first time, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Hu Jong-i (胡忠一) said on Friday. Japan has been promoting the consumption of rice in the ...

The Air Force shares the runway with commercial flights at Misawa Airport and military flights by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Footage posted Wednesday by RAB Aomori Broadcasting shows a ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in what would be a major boost in ties with the largely European ...