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) ...

They agreed that the two sides will try to increase deterrence and response capabilities of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the US military by upgrading their command and control frameworks and ...

Japan Self Defense Forces (JSDF) vice chief of staff Lieutenant General Matsunaga Koji reiterated Tokyo's commitment to ...

Japan's Defense Minister Gen Nakatani pledged on Sunday to bolster the Self-Defense Forces' (SDF) transport capacity to remote southern islands through a newly launched unit called the Maritime ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...