Demonstrators are opposed to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s efforts to build up military power and move the country away ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that "no single country can now protect its own peace and security alone." ...

Plans to erect a statue in New Zealand symbolising the so-called comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reversed limits on arms exports as Japan faces rising threats from China and unpredictability from its main ally, the United States. By Javier C. Hernández Reporting from ...

China says it is “gravely concerned” after Japan scrapped a long-standing ban on lethal weapons exports in response to what Tokyo called a worsening security environment. Japan is making “dangerous ...

In February 1945, Japan launched a desperate mission to move fuel, oil, and strategic cargo north from Singapore aboard the hybrid battleship carriers Ise and Hyuga and their escorts. Allied ...

The interactive worlds dreamed up by game designers in Kyoto and Tokyo are the core of Japan’s soft power.

When Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. Joseph Burke came home to Troy, New York on May 1, 2026-- 84 years after he left-- New York Army ...

All of these major developments in Japan’s security policy history crossed long-standing thresholds that had previously been ...

The approval clears a final set of hurdles for Japan's postwar arms sales and facilitate its future sale of weapons such as a next-generation fighter jet and combat drones.