Japan reached out to China, expressing concern the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy J-15 fighters that came within 50 ...

China has deployed both of its aircraft carriers—CNS Liaoning and CNS Shandong —to the east of the first island chain since ...

Tokyo's defense minister said Friday it was "unacceptable" for China to blame Japan for close encounters between their military planes over the Pacific high seas last weekend. Japan says recent ...

The maneuvers over international waters in the Pacific last weekend prompted Japanese officials to warn China not to repeat ...

Tensions flare as Japan accuses China of dangerous aerial maneuvers near its reconnaissance aircraft. Chinese jets, from ...

A Chinese fighter jet came within about 150 feet of a Japanese naval reconnaissance plane over the weekend, the Japanese ...

Japan and China are blaming each other after Tokyo raised concern that a Chinese fighter jet came dangerously close to ...

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni's commander, Col. Richard Rusnok, chats with Rear Adm. Ichiro Ishikawa, head of Japan's ...

Opinion polls show growing support in Japan for a more visible role for the Self-Defense Forces, as the military is known. Yet the scale of the challenge is daunting. While China’s actual ...

While Japan’s military is often viewed as less aggressive than during World War II, it wouldn’t be a cakewalk for China either. There is no question that Japan has some advantages in a fight ...

is likely to make attracting new recruits to Japan’s already overstretched military even more difficult. “If serious incidents continue to occur almost every year, the public’s trust in the ...