Japan cautioned against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity stretching from its southwestern coasts to the ...

Officials in Tokyo released their Defense of Japan 2025 white paper this week with findings the international community is ...

The report highlighted a sharp rise in Chinese warship activity in the Pacific, especially near Japan's southwestern region.

Japan's defense white paper for 2025 has expressed strong concern over Chinese military activities that it says could have ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, met for talks on the sidelines of Association of Southeast ...

Russia operations and North Korean threats pose the greatest challenge to global order since World War II, in its annual ...

Japan's defense officials have warned China's intensifying military activities could "seriously impact" its security, while also using their annual white paper to highlight the growing alliance of ...

Japan, which renounced war in 1947, last year unveiled a five-year $315 billion military expansion to deter Beijing from using force in the East China Sea amid growing concern that Russia's attack ...

A Chinese military Y-9 intelligence-gathering aircraft entered Japanese airspace in the territorial waters off the Danjo Islands southwest of Japan’s main southern island, Kyushu, from about 11: ...

As Japan seeks to address growing concerns regarding Chinese military activities in the region, Tokyo's toolbox is limited by the vast volume of trade between the two Asian powers.

Japan's Cabinet OK'd a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets to other countries on Tuesday, its latest step away from the pacifist principles the country adopted at the end of World War II.

Though Japan’s pacifist strategic posture outlived the Cold War, it has steadily eroded in the 21st century as Washington urged it to beef up its military and because of Tokyo’s concern that ...