Before that Japan used foreign weapons (under license) and Japanese designed ones solely for Japanese forces. None could be exported and this drove up production costs. All that has changed. Japan ...

TOKYO -- Japan will create a new maritime transport unit in its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in March as it looks to boost defense of its chain of southern islands reaching down to Okinawa prefecture ...

Japan’s parliament on Friday approved a new ... virtual combat training systems for joint exercises between the two forces. The roughly 200 billion yen ($1.6 billion) for the first year is ...

Dec. 4 (UPI) --The United States Space Force activated its first unit in Japan on Wednesday in cooperation with Japan's Air Self-Defense Force's own military space operations group. The staff of ...