Japan's defense minister is scheduled to visit the Philippines soon, his ministry said Friday, as part of efforts to deepen ...

Japan will begin mass production of its enhanced Type 12 surface-to-ship missile (SSM) earlier than projected and has ...

Japan’s ministry of defense has announced that it conducted a live firing test of a new hypervelocity glide munition to ...

The two top defense officials may together attend a Japan-U.S. joint memorial service on March 29 on the Pacific island of ...

TOKYO -- Chinese military vessels sailed through waters around Japan's southwestern islands 68 times in 2024, more than triple the number of such incidents in 2021, Japanese Defense Minister Gen ...

Chinese Foreign Ministry. When asked whether the reported meeting between the defense chiefs of Japan and the US in Japan ...

Hegseth also confirmed to Defense Minister Gen Nakatani that the US-Japan defense treaty covers a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that are controlled by Japan but claimed by ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is hoping for reassurances Friday that the alliance is still strong. But in this White House, ...

The White House declined to get ahead of discussions between President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru ...

The Japanese missile can evade defenses by traveling at more than five times the speed of sound and maneuvering within the atmosphere.