Japan has secured its biggest arms export deal ever through its new Mogami-class frigate. The $6.5 billion sale will see Australia acquiring 11 of the stealth warships. It's a major step forward for ...

JS Chokai is in the US getting modified to carry Tomahawk cruise missiles, marking the latest step toward Japan acquiring the ...

US and Japanese forces are integrating the short-takeoff/vertical landing F-35B onto the JS Kaga. The Kaga is a destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier and Japan's first such vessel since World War II. A US ...

The U.S. Air Force said Exercise Bushido Guardian 25 is focused on the integration of F-35 fifth-generation fighter ...

Though its constitution officially prohibits war and its army and navy are innocuously called “self-defense forces (SDF),” Japan is a stealth military power, with an annual budget of around $42 ...

Japan plays a key role in containing China under the U.S. island chain strategy, which conceives three north-south defensive ...

Anti-immigration sentiment is growing in Japan ahead of the upcoming leadership election to replace Prime Minister Shigeru ...

Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A four-month “ninja stealth rally” has driven Tokyo’s equity market to record highs, as global ...

Japan publicly unveiled its Mitsubishi Heavy Industries X-2 stealth fighter demonstrator earlier today in Toyoyama. If all goes as planned, the prototype aircraft will take to the air in the middle of ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Northrop Grumman Corp is eyeing a Japanese jet fighter project that could pit it against Lockheed Martin Corp, three sources said, almost three decades after it lost a similar ...

The US landed an F-35 stealth fighter on Japan's new aircraft carrier for the first time. US and Japanese forces are integrating the short-takeoff/vertical landing F-35B onto the JS Kaga. The Kaga is ...