You may have heard about Japanese fighter jets touring Europe, as well as a few other locations. Here's why they were ...

Japan plans to expand the number of bases hosting advanced F-35A stealth fighter jets amid neighboring countries’ military activities and air power modernization efforts. Chitose Air Base on Hokkaido, ...

Though Europe has a long military history in Asia, it is quite rare for an Asian nation to send ships or aircraft to Europe, as Japan did earlier this year.

Japan now operates dozens of advanced F-35 stealth fighters—including the F-35B STOVL variant, based on its two quasi-aircraft carriers. Eighty years ago, following its defeat in World War II, Japan ...

Japan has protested after Chinese fighter jets locked radars on Japanese aircraft as tensions between the two nations worsened. Locking radar onto an aircraft is considered a threat because it can ...

China and Japan ties, already frayed by comments made by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Taiwan, came under further strain at the weekend after a Chinese fighter aircraft trained fire-control radar ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said early Sunday that it has protested to China after a military jet that took off from the Chinese carrier Liaoning locked its radar on Japanese fighter jets near the southern ...