Japan’s 40mm railgun stays smaller than U.S. efforts; small-caliber prototypes are planned by 2027, setting clearer deployment steps.

It's named after an aircraft carrier that attacked Pearl Harbor For the last day of President Donald Trump’s highly stage-managed state visit to Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took him to tour the ...

On May 9, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced it has found that a video posted on social media that claimed to have been shot by a Chinese drone flying over the JS Izumo is highly likely to be ...

U.S. treaty ally Japan is a step closer to fielding its first aircraft carriers since World War II following modifications to a helicopter destroyer, which will soon launch and recover American-made ...

On Saturday morning, the JS Ise, one of Japan’s largest Hyuga-class helicopter destroyers, arrived at the Port of Manila. The vessel is part of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and is ...