HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Elite pilot Takahiro Sato adopted a call sign based on the coastline of his hometown after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster razed the coastal area ...

Jane Anlauf thought she was helping a worthy cause. When an organization called the Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation (ASDF) called the 81-year-old Minnetonka woman in May, she agreed to solicit ...

The first of the main contingent of the Air Self-Defense Force will leave the ASDF base in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, on Thursday to assist efforts to rebuild Iraq, according to government sources.

Search operations were continuing Feb. 1 for two pilots of an Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jet that disappeared from radar the previous evening over the Sea of Japan, the Defense Ministry said.

Japan's ASDF or Air Self-Defense Force F-15 aircraft crashed into the Sea of Japan, and it is a mysterious occurrence for the plane that is on its way to a training course. The incident is bizarre for ...

Three Self-Defense Forces (SDF) C-130 transport planes are set to evacuate 60-70 foreigners attached to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)'s South Sudan office along with Japanese ...