Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

By bno - Taipei Office For much of the post-war era, Japan’s armed forces - officially termed the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) - have occupied a peculiar place in global military discourse.

Japan had initially planned the F-35Bs to support amphibious operations, but the initial six jets missed the target March ...

Japan has warned of escalating military threats from China in a new defense report. The report highlights China's growing ...

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

China on Monday accused Japan of disrupting the South China Sea by supplying naval ships to the Philippines.

Tensions between the two countries date to the humiliation of China in the 1894-1895 Sino-Japanese War, and more recently Japan’s abusive conduct during the 1931-1945 occupation of China.

TOKYO — Japan describes four disputed islands as “illegally occupied by Russia” in the latest version of a diplomatic report released Friday, using stronger language to describe the ...

Occupied by the US during World War II, Yonaguni was returned to the Japanese in 1972 as part of Okinawa Prefecture, the band of 150 islands that curves to the south of Japan’s main islands in ...

When General MacArthur landed with the first United States troops in Japan in September 1945, he found devastated cities and a wide-spread collapse of economic and financial structures.

Two U.S. allies in Asia signed a landmark bilateral defense pact on Monday, allowing greater troop access and deployment amid shared concerns about China's ambitions in the East and South China seas.