World War II was decided by more than strategy and manpower. The weapons each side brought to the battlefield often ...

While most Japanese lawmakers support revising the constitution, they are more divided on what, exactly, needs to change.

CHINA and Japan have a long history of feuding. Four years passed between the arrest of a drunken Chinese fishing captain that sent relations into a tailspin in 2010 and the beginning of the ...

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on Iwo Jima in June 1944. Over the next eight months, he built one of the most elaborate defense systems in the Pacific, which would lead to one of the costliest ...

The plan to deploy missiles to an island near Taiwan comes as China continues to ramp up military pressure against the island.

Sanae Takaichi’s political rise presages a stronger Japan that could reshape the strategic balance in Asia and help deter Chinese aggression.

Yonaguni, located on the outskirts of Okinawa Prefecture, is one of Japan’s Westernmost islands. The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force set up a coastal observation unit on Yonaguni in 2016, and the ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has taken his purge of the country’s military to the very top, targeting his own highest-ranked ...

BANGKOK (AP) — China on Tuesday restricted exports to 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to Japan’s “remilitarization,” in the latest escalation of tensions with Tokyo.

Beijing placed the restrictions on 20 Japanese entities with ties to the defense industry, the latest ratcheting up of its ...

China is ratcheting up pressure on Tokyo even after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who angered Beijing with comments about Taiwan in November, won a landslide election victory.

And the United States’ vested interest in its allies’ security offered assurance to Japan and other countries that they would be protected if conflict came to their shores. National security leaders ...