Approved on Dec. 27, 2024, the upcoming defense budget beginning April 1 is up 9.4% to a record 8.7 trillion yen, the ...

Japan on Thursday formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tension from ...

The deployment will last several months and is scheduled to conduct exercises in Japan and other regional islands.

The incoming US administration must reduce uncertainty over its stance on China or risk accidental escalation over ...

Over decades, a shift in US military strategy, larger carriers and the growth of commerce on the West Coast deemphasized US ...

For decades, the United States has relied on airpower and the qualitative superiority of its aircraft to gain an advantage ...

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of state, warned on Wednesday that the ...

The United States and its Northeast Asian allies on Wednesday conducted an aerial drill involving two American bombers after ...

It is possible—though far from certain—that the coming Trump presidency will herald a broad retreat from most of America’s ...

The United States and Japan agreed in 2012 to relocate about 9,000 Marines from Okinawa to other locations in the Pacific.

While there is strong bipartisan support for a robust U.S. presence in the Pacific, the increasingly competitive global ...