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On the 8th, Japan's NHK reported, citing the Ministry of Defense, that takeoffs and landings by Chinese military ...

Japanese prosecutors will not pursue charges against a U.S. Navy sailor accused of inappropriately touching a Japanese girl ...

Japan's Defense Ministry says the Maritime Self-Defense Force has been monitoring the movements of the Chinese aircraft ...

The Japanese Defense Ministry has announced that Chinese J-15 fighter aircraft took off from China's Liaoning aircraft ...

Experts and scholars attend an academic roundtable discussing "Ryukyu and Okinawa in the Postwar 80 Years" held at the Department of History of Peking University on December 6, 2025. Photo: Xing ...

This follows joint drills by Chinese and Russian strategic bombers and fighters on Tuesday that prompted Japan and South ...

Chinese officials took issue with Japan’s claim. Wang Xuemeng, a spokesman for the Chinese Navy, said in a statement that the ...

The Department of National Defense (DND) expressed "deep concern" over China's radar illumination incident that targeted a ...

Residents’ fears are growing on Ishigakijima island in southwestern Japan that the government’s widening defense plan to protect the nation will put them in the line of fire. It has been one year ...

TOKYO – Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth agreed in their phone talks on ...

YONAGUNI, Okinawa Prefecture--This tiny island on Japan’s western frontier has no convenience store. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead sharks and watch miniature horses graze on a hill. But the ...