The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force will launch its Indo-Pacific Deployment on April 21. A total of five ships forming four ...

The United States deployed at least one B-1B strategic bomber over the Korean Peninsula in joint air drills with South Korea, ...

The Japanese government passed a record defense budget in 2024, in line with its commitment to increase its defense spending ...

For years, weapons of war have been freely flowing into Iraq. Slack controls over Iraqi military stockpiles and endemic corruption by successive Iraqi governments have added to the problem. When ...

UBS Asset Management, which runs $1.8 trillion of assets, has scrapped a block on some sustainability funds backing manufacturers of conventional weapons, according to its latest exclusion policy ...

SINGAPORE—The Japanese Defense Ministry (JMOD) has awarded Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) a JPY32.3 billion ($215.7 million) contract to develop a new ground-based anti-surface missile to ...

Hegseth and Nakatani held extensive talks focused on expanding joint military exercises, increasing U.S. force presence on Japan’s southwest islands, and co-producing key missile systems such as the ...

Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reaffirmed Japan's critical role in countering Chinese military aggression during his visit to Tokyo on Sunday. Hegseth announced plans to ...

This would include speeding up a Biden administration-era plan to create a new joint U.S.-Japan military command in Tokyo that he called a “war-fighting headquarters,” although Mr. Hesgeth did ...

Japan’s former top army commander yesterday expressed hope that Taiwan would ... Photo: Tu Chien-jung, Taipei Times Semiconductors are the key component in a vast array of weapons ranging from High ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa ...