By bno - Taipei Office For much of the post-war era, Japan’s armed forces - officially termed the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) - ...

Japan's defence ministry plans to acquire six shipborne small UAVs in fiscal year 2025 as part of a broader strategy to ...

PYONGYANG - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday slammed Japan's 2025 defense white paper, calling it ...

Japan has never fully reflected on its aggressive acts and war crimes before and during the World Anti-Fascist War (World War ...

The annual defense white paper says that U.S. actions under Trump will “significantly impact” the Indo-Pacific region and ...

Japan will export used destroyers to the Philippines, Reuters reported, citing Japan's Yomiuri newspaper on Sunday, to ...

View PDF Executive Summary This research project began as an effort to explore the potential security challenges that a ...

So-called “stand-off” missile capabilities are core to a defence strategy adopted in 2022 to threaten Chinese military bases that could be used against Japan.

The Cabinet-endorsed draft defense budget marks the third year of Japan’s ongoing five-year military buildup under the national security strategy adopted in 2022.

Japan plans to supply defense equipment to Thailand, Tonga and six other nations in the current fiscal year as security aid, a government source said Friday, with the aim to ensure safe sea lanes in ...

After World War II, the U.S. dismantled the former Japanese military, but with the onset of the Cold War, it shifted from a demilitarization strategy to make Japan a bulwark against communism.