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 ...

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

As Japan prepares to vote for the House of Councilors, right-wing politicians are challenging PM Shigeru Ishiba over ...

Japan's defense officials have warned China's intensifying military activities could "seriously impact" its security, while ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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.

Despite U.S. concerns, Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force continues to operate its Ospreys. The country is also midway through upping its military spending to the NATO standard of two percent of GDP.

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 ...