Guam recently hosted U.S., Japanese, Indian, Australian and South Korean navies for multilateral exercises, including ...

Japan approved 847.2 billion yen ($5.4 billion) defense spending in the fiscal 2025 supplementary budget amid growing ...

THE Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer JS Harusame (DD-102), is now at the Naval Operating Base Subic in ...

A Japanese guided missile destroyer and its crew are in the Philippines for a four-day goodwill visit, further boosting the ...

The USS Harry S. Truman and ships from the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) moored in Norfolk on August 2, completing the at-sea phase of a training exercise. The bilateral exercise, which ...

The Philippine Navy rendered arrival honors to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Harusame (DD-102) upon its ...

An undated file photo of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Sazanami (DD-113). Credit: Japanese Ministry of Defense The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer JS ...

Countries around the world often utilize military weapons not manufactured within their own borders. The same is true of Japan, a U.S. ally, which is currently upgrading its eight Aegis destroyers ...

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned its second Asahi-class guided-missile destroyer in a ceremony held on 27 February in Nagasaki Prefecture. JS Shiranui, Japan’s second ...

Japanese forces tracked Russian Navy and People’s Army Liberation Navy ships conducting separate movements on this week, while Tokyo has protested the intrusion of a Chinese survey ship into Japanese ...

The Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship USS Warrior (MCM 10) pulls into Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo. Warrior traveled from Bahrain by heavy-lift transport ship to replace ex-Guardian (MCM 5 ...