Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are expected to reaffirm the importance of strengthening the deterrence and response capabilities of the Japan-U.S ...

The Japanese and U.S. governments are coordinating to hold a meeting between their defense chiefs in Tokyo as early as late March, it was learned Wednesday. Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S ...

The exchange was held to follow up on a meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Trump at the White House on Feb 7, where the two agreed to pursue a "new golden age" of bilateral ...

TOKYO -- Japan will send a Mogami-class warship on a trip to Australia, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Wednesday, as Tokyo markets its finalist among the candidates for Canberra's ...

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Friday. Nakatani presented ministry and Self-Defense Forces data highlighting a sharp increase in Chinese warship activity in the Pacific Ocean and the ...

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the ...

A Japanese Ministry of Defense image showing a test firing of the improved Type 12 missile. (Japanese Ministry of Defense) Japan will begin mass production of its enhanced Type 12 surface-to-ship ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and their Philippine counterparts, Teodoro Locsin and Delfin Lorenzana, in their first so-called “2+2” security ...

China and Russia increased their deployments of intelligence-gathering vessels and aircraft around Japan in early February, and this appears to be a co-ordinated ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan’s former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ...

Japan’s Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said the visit by the frigate Noshiro would help strengthen co-operation and mutual trust between the two navies. “Japan and Australia share fundamental ...