The Japanese government said Thursday it will work with Washington and urge engagement from powers including China on nuclear ...

TOKYO -- The Mainichi Shimbun asked all 1,285 candidates in the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election about their views on ...

Tensions are growing in east Asia. The threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan persists and, in recent weeks, North Korea has been testing its long-range missile capabilities. Russia’s reorientation of ...

A recent remark by a senior government adviser has reopened one of Japan’s most sensitive postwar debates: whether the ...

Japan could develop its own nuclear weapons within 3 years if it wanted to, experts claim. This would be possible because Japan already possesses the raw materials and expertise to do so. According to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan has secured its biggest arms export deal ever through its new Mogami-class frigate. The $6.5 billion sale will see Australia ...

Japan's Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) has started prototyping components in support of its programme to ...

Japanese police have confiscated metal tubes, tools and possible gunpowder from the home of a man suspected of throwing what was believed to be a homemade pipe bomb at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and beginning live trials at sea. The system, rated at 100-kilowatt power, is ...

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