In the South China Sea, a joint drill between the Philippines and Japan coincided with Chinese military patrols, sparking ...

Filipino military units and their counterparts from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) conducted the second bilateral maritime cooperative activity (MCA) within the West Philippine Sea (WPS ...

China has deployed both of its aircraft carriers—CNS Liaoning and CNS Shandong —to the east of the first island chain since ...

Tokyo's defence minister said Friday it was "unacceptable" for China to blame Japan for close encounters between their ...

Japan's Defense Ministry said Wednesday a Chinese J-15 fighter jet's "abnormal approaches" brought it within 49 yards of ...

The maneuvers over international waters in the Pacific last weekend prompted Japanese officials to warn China not to repeat ...

Japan and China are blaming each other after Tokyo raised concern that a Chinese fighter jet came dangerously close to ...

Japan said J-15 warplanes operating from two Chinese aircraft carriers in the Pacific carried out risky manouevres.

TOKYO (AP) — An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The Japanese government on Friday gave the U.S. military the green light to release about 400,000 gallons of treated water from this airlift hub in western Tokyo.

Japan is stepping up efforts to deter China’s military ambitions in the Asia-Pacific as Tokyo and other US partners seek clarity from the Trump administration about its plans to counter Beijing’s ...

Opinion polls show growing support in Japan for a more visible role for the Self-Defense Forces, as the military is known. Yet the scale of the challenge is daunting. While China’s actual ...