Japan’s calorie-based food self-sufficiency rate in fiscal 2023 stood at 38 percent, unchanged for the third consecutive year, the farm ministry said. The rate has remained at a low level for ...

They were permitted to come back to Japan. But Kim claimed that Megumi and seven other Japanese had died in North Korea. Yokota's death leaves just Sakie and Akihiro Arimoto as the only surviving ...

Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) has placed an order with Boeing for 17 CH-47 Block II Chinooks (Extended Range) helicopters as part of an effort to modernize its current aircraft fleet. On February ...

Deal with Boeing makes the country the fourth to purchase the advanced configuration of the heavy-lift aircraft.

The U.S. Space Force's field command in Japan was launched at Yokota Air Base in western ... moving forward," welcoming the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's plan to reinforce its own team dedicated ...

TOKYO -- Japan will send a Mogami-class warship on a trip to Australia, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Wednesday, as Tokyo markets its finalist among the candidates for Canberra's ...

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are expected to reaffirm the importance of strengthening the deterrence and response capabilities of the Japan-U.S ...

The U.S. Space Force's field command in Japan was launched at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in December to offer space expertise ... Japan and that he can "anticipate a continued partnership moving ...

As Heather McBryan, vice president and program manager Boeing Cargo Programs, shared in a Boeing February 13 statement, “This award strengthens our decades-long relationship with KHI and provides ...

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy speaks during a news conference Friday in Washington about the fatal Black Hawk-jet collision on Jan. 29. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP ...

TOKYO -- Chinese military vessels sailed through waters around Japan's southwestern islands 68 times in 2024, more than triple the number of such incidents in 2021, Japanese Defense Minister Gen ...