CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — At least three U.S. Navy ships and four Marine Corps Ospreys will join an annual amphibious exercise ...

U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self Defense will join for a bilateral exercise on Japan’s southwest islands, Japanese ...

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Kyoto-based Mitsufuji got its start nearly 70 years ago as a weaver of decorative belts for kimonos. One day soon, it could ...

Approved on Dec. 27, 2024, the upcoming defense budget beginning April 1 is up 9.4% to a record 8.7 trillion yen, the ...

In February and March, the U.S. Marine Corps joined the Japanese military for Iron Fist 24, an annual military exercise that showcases U.S.-Japanese military coordination. Iron Fist The America ...

Iwaya told Rubio and Waltz that Japan had no choice but to continue increasing defense capabilities given the situation in ...

Japan will expand an unprecedented military aid program, the first of its kind since World War II, to help the armed forces ...

Japan's concerns over a potential U.S. retreat from the region have grown amid China's increasingly assertive military posture.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic ... The presence of someone else’s military on this list may strike some as unusual, but let’s face ...