Japan cautioned against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity stretching from its southwestern coasts to the ...

In its 2025 white paper, Japan's Defense Ministry said the world faces the most perilous security environment since World War ...

Officials in Tokyo released their Defense of Japan 2025 white paper this week with findings the international community is ...

Japan's defense white paper for 2025 has expressed strong concern over Chinese military activities that it says could have ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, met for talks on the sidelines of Association of Southeast ...

Russia operations and North Korean threats pose the greatest challenge to global order since World War II, in its annual ...

Japan has also expressed deep concerns about the growing military ties between Russia and North Korea. This partnership has the potential to create new security risks, particularly in the East ...

Japan, which renounced war in 1947, last year unveiled a five-year $315 billion military expansion to deter Beijing from using force in the East China Sea amid growing concern that Russia's attack ...

A Chinese military Y-9 intelligence-gathering aircraft entered Japanese airspace in the territorial waters off the Danjo Islands southwest of Japan’s main southern island, Kyushu, from about 11: ...

As Japan seeks to address growing concerns regarding Chinese military activities in the region, Tokyo's toolbox is limited by the vast volume of trade between the two Asian powers.

Though Japan’s pacifist strategic posture outlived the Cold War, it has steadily eroded in the 21st century as Washington urged it to beef up its military and because of Tokyo’s concern that ...

Japan's Cabinet OK'd a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets to other countries on Tuesday, its latest step away from the pacifist principles the country adopted at the end of World War II.