Less than 750 kilometres from Taiwan and home to nearly 30,000 US troops, the Japanese islands of Okinawa would play a ...

The trip gave the impression that Japan’s relations with China were on the mend. Iwaya indicated that Japan would be open to ...

What makes the JASSM-ER especially useful for Japan is the extended range of the missile. The range on the JASSM-ER is more than 1,200 miles. That’s because this weapon has an internal fuel tank and a ...

To prevent US intervention in an invasion, China is carrying out a “silent invasion” of ... Beijing was also allegedly “playing up economic problems” in Okinawa, Japan’s poorest prefecture, the ...

China’s Type 054B frigate marks a new era in naval power, while Japan’s Mogami-class ships push back—are other navies ...

As Trump's second administration comes to a start, experts speculate on what it could mean for U.S. relations with Japan and ...

Japan on Thursday formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tension from Russia, China and North Korea.

Japan’s Weekly Gendai ... He said: “There have been growing reports of China carrying out a ‘silent invasion’ of Okinawa and Xi Jinping sometimes talking about support for the ‘Okinawa ...

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and closer ties between Moscow and Beijing, NATO has deepened its links with Japan and three other Indo-Pacific partners, Australia ...