Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday ...

Revelations from Historical Records Representational Image Tokyo, June 6: Recent historical findings have illuminated the ...

The Japanese government entered the lethal weapons export business after lifting the ban on April 21 by revising the Three Principles on the Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology.

Two Japanese workers were reportedly hospitalized in China for injuries they sustained while excavating chemical weapons ...

Can Japan be a major player in the international defense sector, like its neighbor South Korea?

Japan and the Philippines on Thursday agreed to strengthen their defense cooperation by accelerating talks on Japanese ...

A senior Japanese official’s suggestion that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has reignited debate over whether the country could—or would—break with a decades-old taboo in response to an ...

The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has lifted a ban on exporting lethal weapons, including fighter jets, in a major shift to Japan’s pacifist post-World War II constitution. In a ...

By reintroducing US theater nuclear forces first in South Korea, and then more gradually in Japan, Washington can reassure ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Tuesday scrapped a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change in its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry amid worries over Chinese and ...