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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tuesday that his country and the Philippines would start talks on two proposed ...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force Central Band, making its debut at this year’s Tattoo at Scope Arena, played for students Tuesday at Norview Elementary School in Norfolk. It’s the first time ...