The Japan Self Defense Forces, the country's military, has installed a missile base right in the center of the island. On a hill surrounded by sugar cane and pineapple farms, about 600 soldiers ...

Japan launched the Joint Operations Command on Monday to take charge of all three branches of its Self-Defense Force in a centralized manner. The new SDF command was launched at the Defense ...

The budget adopted by the Cabinet also will further fortify the military with F-35 stealth combat jets and other American weapons as Japanese Self-Defense Forces increasingly work with allies and ...