The HMS Prince of Wales may conduct “cross-deck drills” with JS Kaga using aircraft carrier-based F-35Bs. If realized, it ...

Japan has demanded China stop flying its fighter jets abnormally close to Japanese intelligence-gathering aircraft, which it ...

Even if effective defense equipment is procured, it will be meaningless if the understanding of the local communities where it will be deployed cannot be obtained. The government must do its utmost to ...

The U.S. Air Force has transferred upgraded F-16 Fighting Falcons from Japan to South Korea, reinforcing its fighter ...

Tatsukuma Ueno, 97, a former Japanese army pilot, took the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo to ...

The Japanese army has begun deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys on a newly opened permanent base in the southwest, the latest ...

Simultaneously, Japan is also preparing to start training operations at Nyutabaru Air Base for F-35B vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft on contract.

Defence Minister Gen Nakatani previously said the T-4 plane, which operates out of Nyutabaru air base, in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki, was heading back to its home base on an unspecified ...

An incident report from the Aviation Safety Network stated: 'A T-4 trainer aircraft from Nyutabaru Air Base, which was on an escort mission related to the regular maintenance of an F-15 fighter ...

The crashed plane was a 36-year-old T-4 operated out of Nyutabaru Air Base, in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki. It wasn't fitted with a voice recorder or a flight data recorder, a setback for ...