Japan is undergoing its most significant military buildup since WWII, signaling a sharp departure from its pacifist post-war stance. In 2023, the country increased its defense budget by 26% and plans ...

Japan cautioned against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity stretching from its southwestern coasts to the ...

In its 2025 white paper, Japan's Defense Ministry said the world faces the most perilous security environment since World War ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, met for talks on the sidelines of Association of Southeast ...

Japan, which renounced war in 1947, last year unveiled a five-year $315 billion military expansion to deter Beijing from using force in the East China Sea amid growing concern that Russia's attack ...

A Chinese military Y-9 intelligence-gathering aircraft entered Japanese airspace in the territorial waters off the Danjo Islands southwest of Japan’s main southern island, Kyushu, from about 11: ...

Today, Japan is ranked fifth globally in overall military power after the U.S., Russia, China and India, and its defense budget ranked sixth in the 2021 ranking of 140 countries by the Global ...

As Japan seeks to address growing concerns regarding Chinese military activities in the region, Tokyo's toolbox is limited by the vast volume of trade between the two Asian powers.

Though Japan’s pacifist strategic posture outlived the Cold War, it has steadily eroded in the 21st century as Washington urged it to beef up its military and because of Tokyo’s concern that ...

Japan's Cabinet OK'd a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets to other countries on Tuesday, its latest step away from the pacifist principles the country adopted at the end of World War II.

Military ties took off in 2012, after Shinzo Abe took office as the Japanese prime minister, and continued even under President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines.