April 8 (UPI) --NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned of China's military expansion while aiming to improve economic ties with Japan during a two-day visit on Tuesday and Wednesday. China's ...

TOKYO - As Japan spins up its defence industry for the country’s largest military expansion since World War II, it faces a challenge: Some of its best-known brands are reluctant to invest in the ...

Cultivating a home-grown defence industry was a key plank of Japan's 43 trillion yen ($275 billion) military build-up strategy launched in 2022 to counter escalating security threats from China ...

The proposal, which still needs to be submitted to the finance ministry for final approval, marks the third year of Japan's ambitious five-year military expansion plan. The government plans to ...

Any expansion of military drills between the NATO military alliance and Japan would only escalate tensions, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said on Monday, the TASS state news ...

Matsuda, a fourth-generation resident of the island, says she supports the drills and the expansion of Japan’s military forces, given “the global situation”. Many residents of Yonaguni have ...

Pushing back against U.S. attempts to limit Japan's aggressive expansion, Japan launched a ... the Japanese military did not advance to the U.S. mainland. A lengthy Facebook post claims fear ...

TOKYO, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Kyoto-based Mitsufuji got its start nearly 70 years ago as a weaver of decorative belts for kimonos. One day soon, it could be spinning high-tech fibres to shield fighter ...