Armed with advanced military capabilities and world-leading industrial capacity, it can attack all of Japan at scale, ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan (Nov. 10, 2015) -- The U.S. Army Dental Activity-Japan hosted six dental residents Nov. 4 and 5 from the Japan Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital in Tokyo at the Camp Zama Dental ...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- Two teams of subject matter experts from the 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, trained with the Japanese Self Defense Force (JSDF) during ...

The Japan-U.S. alliance is one of the strongest in the world. Not only does it include a vast array of economic and diplomatic agreements, but the average observer can easily point out the degree to ...

Members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces have participated in a live-fire exercise as part of a combat drill held by the Philippines and the United States. The Balikatan drill started on April 20 ...

The Sasakawa Peace Foundation will resume arranging JSDF and PLA exchanges in July, the latest development in 20 years of on-again/off-again visits. A delegation from the Japan Self-Defense Forces ...

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from a policy roundtable “The Future of Japanese Security and Defense” from our sister publication, the Texas National Security Review. Be sure to check out the full ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Type 89 rifle isn’t bad – but it has serious ergonomic problems and lacks several modern innovations (rails, for instance). The standard issue rifle of the ...