In the summer of 1945, before the atomic bombings ended the war, the U.S. Navy launched direct bombardments against Japan’s ...

The Takaichi government is pushing to revise Japan’s three security documents, which outline national security strategy, within the year. The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on the 28th that the revised ...

A 10-ship Russian convoy transited Japan’s Tsushima Strait to enter the East China Sea over the weekend, according to Japan’s ...

Japan monitored a rare transit of 10 Russian vessels, including two frigates, sailing between Okinawa islands into the ...

Japan fired an antiship missile outside its territory for the first time, joining American, Philippine and Canadian forces in ...

Demonstrators are opposed to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s efforts to build up military power and move the country away ...

All of these major developments in Japan’s security policy history crossed long-standing thresholds that had previously been ...

It was site of the only land battle fought on U.S. soil during World War II. And in proportional terms, it was one of the ...

BEIJING, April 22 (Reuters) - China said a group of its naval vessels, including a destroyer, passed through a waterway between two islands administered by the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa on ...

MANILA, May 6 (Reuters) - Japan's Self-Defense Forces fired a Type 88 anti‑ship missile during a joint maritime exercise with U.S., Australian, and Philippine forces on Wednesday, hitting a ...

Japan’s government has scrapped restrictions on overseas arms sales in a major shift from pacifist policies introduced after World War II. It comes as the country seeks to counter regional security ...