Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF) battle tanks take part in a live fire exercise at East Fuji Maneuver Area in Gotemba on May 27, 2023. YUICHI YAMAZAKI / AFP Japan will ease decades-old arms export rules, the government's top spokesman Minoru Kihara ...

The approval clears a final set of hurdles for Japan's postwar arms sales and facilitate its future sale of weapons such as a next-generation fighter jet and combat drones.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made an offering to a shrine seen by Japan’s neighbors as glorifying its wartime past, in a move that stops short of a visit but may still anger China and other neighboring nations.

A big military exercise in the South China Sea is getting Beijing’s back up. It’s part of a bigger shift in regional security. Choppy waters. When thousands of troops from the

In a break from post-war pacifism, Japan has scrapped its ban on arms exports to make way for overseas sales of fighter aircraft, missiles, and warships. Facing an increasingly assertive China and an unreliable United States,