Before that Japan used foreign weapons (under license) and Japanese designed ones solely for Japanese forces. None could be exported and this drove up production costs. All that has changed. Japan ...

Experience Japan’s Subaru Bell 412EXP Huey and Fuji AH-1 up close and personal in video, at the JGSDF base showcase in ...

TOKYO -- Japan will create a new maritime transport unit in its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in March as it looks to boost defense of its chain of southern islands reaching down to Okinawa prefecture ...

Japan's Vanilla Air has apologised after a wheelchair user was forced to crawl up a set of stairs to the plane. Hideto Kijima had boarded with the help of friends on his outbound flight.

Washington plans to give operational command authority to U.S. forces in Japan to bolster coordination with the Self-Defense Forces, Japanese government sources said. The U.S. government will ...

A Japanese man in his 20s who joined Russian forces fighting in Ukraine died last month in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, sources said. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told a ...