A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday.

Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing “trouble,” authorities said, as the mafia-like groups contend ...

The A6M Zero was Japan’s answer to air superiority in the early years of the Pacific War—light, fast, and deadly. But as the war progressed, its vulnerabilities became more apparent. In this animated ...

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force will launch its Indo-Pacific Deployment on April 21. A total of five ships forming four ...

A Japan Airlines aircraft was forced to abort takeoff after likely mistaking runway lights for the centre line and hitting some of them. Flight JAL377 carrying 80 passengers began its takeoff at ...

A Kawasaki P-1 patrol aircraft of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force launches anti-missile flares during a fleet review off Sagami Bay, Kanagawa prefecture, in 2015. (Toru Yamanaka/AFP via Getty ...

The reported move would be retaliatory in the trade war between China and the US ... ordered domestic airlines to stop purchasing aircraft products from the US. The report follows China's ...

A C-130 transport aircraft with about 20 crew members and 2.5 tons of medical goods is set to depart an SDF base in Aichi Prefecture in central Japan for ... in its civil war against ethnic ...

Sgt. Joe Harris was one of an elite group of Black paratroopers during World War II. He is being laid to rest today. He was ...

In 2023, after months of meticulous planning, Japanese business aircraft operator OpenSky welcomed Japan’s first Pilatus PC-12 NGX turboprop and PC-24 jet.