By bno - Taipei Office For much of the post-war era, Japan’s armed forces - officially termed the Self-Defence Forces (SDF) - ...

Japan isn’t allowed to have aircraft carriers—so they built them anyway. Disguised as “helicopter destroyers,” the Izumo-class ships reveal a clever workaround of constitutional limits, global ...

Japan's defence ministry plans to acquire six shipborne small UAVs in fiscal year 2025 as part of a broader strategy to ...

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

Japan will export used destroyers to the Philippines, Reuters reported, citing Japan's Yomiuri newspaper on Sunday, to ...

Japan’s army has begun relocating its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft to a new base on the southern island of Kyushu, part of ...

Japan has said its military could shoot down foreign drones flying over its territory, days after a Chinese-made drone ...

The Asia-Indo-Pacific is no longer a distant geopolitical theater. It is the central arena of strategic competition, ...

U.S. calls for clearer commitments on Taiwan underscore the growing pressure on the Quad, as the Taiwan issue increasingly ...

Japan’s regional economic security strategy must consider the long-term fallout of the Trump 2.0 era. Japan’s Economic Security Promotion Act aims to revitalise the semiconductor and artificial ...

There is a proposal that Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines should be considered as a single theater of war.