The long-range missiles could target vulnerable parts of ships and traverse Japan’s mountainous terrains to hit land-based ...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF)'s Blue Impulse aerobatics team is set to fly above areas around the Osaka Expo venue ...

Japan activated its Japan Self-Defense Force Joint Operations Command (JJOC) Monday, allowing its military to better conduct ...

Japan launched its new Joint Operations Command on Monday to better integrate all three branches of its Self-Defense Forces.

Hana Kusumoto is a reporter/translator who has been covering local authorities in Japan since 2002. She was born in Nagoya, ...

Japan on Monday launched a new command for the Self-Defense Forces to better integrate its ground, maritime and air defenses, ...

During a joint press conference in Tokyo on March 30, 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Defense ...

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani has announced that Tokyo proposed joint production of the SM-6 ship-to-air missile ...

The head of U.S. Forces Japan, Air Force Lt. Gen. Stephen Jost, speaks during the Joint Operations Command activation ...

Japan put the branches of its military under a single operational command, taking a step the US, China and other nations have ...

Rome could buy the Japanese Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft to tackle hostile submarines in the Mediterranean, a ...

The Pentagon has begun the first phase of upgrading U.S. Forces Japan to a joint force headquarters, announced Secretary of ...