Japan isn’t allowed to have aircraft carriers—so they built them anyway. Disguised as “helicopter destroyers,” the Izumo-class ships reveal a clever workaround of constitutional limits, global ...

In doggedly resisting US prompts to boost defence spending by evoking a ‘neutralist’ foreign policy in his recent John Curtin ...

That is how McGeorge Bundy, President John F. Kennedy’s national security adviser, described the Anglo-American alliance. The “Special Relationship,” the exceptionally close collaboration forged durin ...

TOKYO — Japan cautioned against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity stretching from its southwestern coasts to ...

In its 2025 white paper, Japan's Defense Ministry said the world faces the most perilous security environment since World War ...

A new Japanese defense policy white paper showed the country was seeking to be a major military power, North Korean state media reported a foreign ministry official as saying Friday, who justified ...