Japan is seeking to create a more self-sufficient military as a deterrence against China’s increasingly assertive military ...

Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi faces significant foreign policy challenges just days after taking office ...

Japan has designated 14 airports and 26 seaports for use by its military and coast guard during a contingency.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and new Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi highlighted their shared commitment to ...

(Bloomberg) -- A Chinese military aircraft entered Japanese airspace in an unprecedented incident that prompted a strong condemnation from Tokyo and a pledge from Beijing to look into the matter.

The U.S. and Japan have for the first time explicitly named China as a "hypothetical adversary" during a simulated military exercise, amid escalating concerns over a potential future invasion of ...

TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) -China has begun construction of a new structure in waters between China and Japan in the disputed East China Sea, the Japanese foreign ministry said on Tuesday, adding it has ...

TOKYO — The violation of Japan’s airspace by a Chinese military plane is “completely unacceptable,” the Japanese government’s top spokesperson said Tuesday, a day after Japan scrambled its military in ...

TOKYO — Japan's top government spokesperson said Tuesday a Chinese military aircraft had briefly entered Japanese airspace the day before, calling the incident an “absolutely unacceptable” territorial ...