The oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah has ...

Japan's Cabinet approved on Friday a record 8.7-trillion-yen ($55-billion) defense budget for 2025 as the country accelerates ...

Japan’s cabinet approved a new $55.13 billion defense budget on Friday, marking the 13th consecutive year that Tokyo has ...

For the 11th year in a row, the budget draft set a new record for national defense spending as Japan continues to pursue its ...

Japan approved a record defence budget for 2025, focusing on long-range missiles and deploying Tomahawks. The budget includes ...

Japan has a pacifist post-war constitution, which limits its military capacity to ostensibly defensive measures. But it ...

Okinawa, which was under U.S. postwar occupation until 1972, is still home to a majority of the more than 50,000 American troops based in Japan under a bilateral security pact, while 70% of U.S.

In a rare sign of defence cooperation amid frayed bilateral ties, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has hosted a Japanese delegation of young military officers. The nine-day trip ...

Russia is sending four ships to its bases in Syria to evacuate weapons and military equipment, according to Ukraine's main intelligence directorate (GUR). In a Telegram post on Thursday ...

An American military man who served at the US Air Force base in Okinawa has been sentenced by a Japanese court to five years in prison for kidnapping and raping a schoolgirl. This is reported by TASS.

TOKYO: Japan's government plans to raise the country's key taxes starting in April 2026 to fund more defence spending after a one-year delay, according to a document seen by Reuters on Thursday ...