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A foreign submarine was detected on May 12 plying the depths in a contiguous zone outside Japan's territorial waters south of Kumejima island in Okinawa Prefecture, the Defense ...

As tensions continue to mount on the Korean Peninsula, the Abe administration has quietly issued an order to shoot down any ballistic missile launched by North Korea that puts...

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By the afternoon of March 15, 2011, the Defense Ministry had prepared a rough plan to cool the overheating reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant by using...

In the middle of the night on March 15, four days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster broke out, Col. Masahiro Onishi of the Ground Self-Defense Force was working at the...

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoned Ichiro Fujisaki, the Japanese ambassador, to the Pentagon at 4:30 p.m. on March 29, 2011. It was 5:30 a.m....

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PATTAYA, Thailand—An exercise here that tested the ability of Self-Defense Forces troops to evacuate civilians overseas has highlighted problems ranging from mandate...

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Feb. 8 took a step toward his long-cherished goal of allowing Japan to exercise its right to collective self-defense.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has condemned as unacceptable China's recent moves in the East China Sea and said the world needs to know what Beijing is up to.

Chinese maritime surveillance vessels made apparent preparations last year to deploy helicopters inside Japanese territorial waters, which would have directly challenged...

The global standard of thinking is that locking a fire-control radar on a target is tantamount to a "simulated attack," a senior Defense Ministry official said.

Japan's territorial row with China over the Senkaku Islands entered a heightened phase of tension with Tokyo's Feb. 5 announcement that a Chinese warship directed fire-control...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Feb. 1 he intends to issue a statement befitting a new age to replace a landmark apology for Japan’s wartime actions in Asia that was issued in ...