The long-range missiles could target vulnerable parts of ships and traverse Japan’s mountainous terrains to hit land-based ...

China's launches drills around Taiwan to "severely punish" the island's pro-independence leader, as the U.S. boosts its war ...

During a joint press conference in Tokyo on March 30, 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Defense ...

Japan activated its Japan Self-Defense Force Joint Operations Command (JJOC) Monday, allowing its military to better conduct ...

The Japanese government passed a record defense budget in 2024, in line with its commitment to increase its defense spending to two percent of its GDP by 2027. The country’s new prime minister, ...

Following Japan's condemnation of China's recent military exercises near Taiwan, the Chinese Foreign Ministry firmly rejected ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US military has begun to upgrade its operations in Japan to a new “war-fighting” ...

The United States has taken the first step toward upgrading its military operation in Japan to a joint force headquarters, ...

Hana Kusumoto is a reporter/translator who has been covering local authorities in Japan since 2002. She was born in Nagoya, ...

The Pentagon has begun the first phase of upgrading U.S. Forces Japan to a joint force headquarters, announced Secretary of ...

The U.S. defense secretary sought to reassure its ally over security ties and vowed to speed up the creation of a joint ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this week that Japan would be “on the front lines of any contingency we might face ...