Donald Trumps call for allied nations to deploy warships escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has put Japan in a difficult position, reigniting long-standing debates over how far its ...

Any decision to dispatch Japanese military vessels to the Middle East to escort ships would face “high hurdles,” a senior ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's F-15 fighters holding a joint military drill with the U.S. B-52 bomber on Dec. 10, 2025. (Japan ...

The Tomahawk missiles will give Japan a powerful weapon with which to deter China. Yet the broader issue of the missiles’ short supply, and low replenishment rates, remains unsolved. A fundamental, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan's recent deployment of missiles on Yonaguni, an island only 110km (70 miles) away from Taiwan, comes amid rising tensions ...

Diesel-electric submarines like the Taigei class offer Japan a fearsome weapon against China—at a fraction of the cost of cutting-edge American ones.

Japan understands that it cannot equal China’s economic heft in the Pacific. Instead, Tokyo has sought to deepen defense cooperation.

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries won a multi-billion dollar deal to build a fleet of advanced naval frigates for Australia, boosting Tokyo’s ambitions to become a major exporter of ...

Destroyer USS Mustin (DDG-89) recently departed San Diego to replace USS Robert Smalls (CG-62), the sea service’s last ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry is responding to a surge of bear attacks by sending its military to areas where such incidents are occurring regularly. Troops were deployed to the northern prefecture of ...

Japan's imperial ambitions in Pacific Asia from the 1880s to 1945 were shaped by a web of strategic alliances, racial politics, and great-power rivalries ...