Officials from the US, Japan, and South Korea on Friday met in Tokyo, reaffirming their trilateral cooperation initiated ...

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

Japan has warned of escalating military threats from China. The report highlights China's growing military activity near ...

Development comes after Tokyo says Chinese military aircraft ‘made unusual close approaches’ toward Japanese aircraft - ...

The Japanese military is particularly vulnerable to the consequences of demographic change. Since its founding in 1954, the force has rarely met its recruitment targets, and decades of economic ...

Japan on Friday unveiled a new national security plan that signals the country’s biggest military buildup since World War II, doubling defense spending and veering from its pacifist constitution ...

By asserting its own deterrent power, Japan — the world’s third-largest economy — could become less a military protectorate of the United States and more an equal partner.

Growing calls for more military spending after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrate Japan’s recognition that it must bolster its own deterrent power, not just rely on its U.S. alliance.

Japan's current military strategy, which relies on forward defense, is outdated. An active denial strategy would improve deterrence and mitigate crisis instability, making it better suited to meet the ...