Japan regularly intercepts Russian forces near its territorial waters and airspace.

Japan fighter aircraft were scrambled 448 times in the last nine months – a 14 percent decrease from the same timeframe last ...

Japan is converting two naval vessels into aircraft carriers to bolster its defense posture in its southwestern islands.

In August 1945, just as World War II came to an end, the U.S. Navy encountered something deeply unsettling in the Pacific. A ...

TOKYO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Japan said on Sunday that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar at Japanese military aircraft in two "dangerous" incidents near Japan's Okinawa islands, an account ...

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Japan plans to reinforce its maritime surveillance capabilities by doubling the number of MQ-9B large drones operated by its coast guard to 10 over five years, in the face of China's assertiveness in ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said early Sunday that it has protested to China after a military jet that took off from the Chinese carrier Liaoning locked its radar on Japanese fighter jets near the southern ...

CNN — Tokyo (AP) — Japan said Monday that Chinese military aircraft locked radar on its fighter jets even though there was a safe distance between them, denying Beijing’s accusation of interference ...