Japan has secured its biggest arms export deal ever through its new Mogami-class frigate. The $6.5 billion sale will see Australia acquiring 11 of the stealth warships. It's a major step forward for ...

The joint operations between China and Russia combined with threats coming from North Korea pose the greatest threat to global order since World War II, Japan’s defense ministry said in a new document ...

President Donald Trump and Defesne Secretary Pete Hegseth participate in a press conference, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, during the 2025 NATO Summit at the World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands. Credit: ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, a harrowing cinematic portrayal of Japanese wartime atrocities during the 1937 Nanking massacre has reignited memories of historical trauma that resonate ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for ...

Members of the ruling LDP fear Ishiba's planned UN speech will offer a more sweeping WWII apology than any previous Japanese leader Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to deliver a ...

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...