Japan scrambled fighter jets to respond to Russian bombers, fighters and a surveillance plane at least four times this week ...

Japan regularly intercepts Russian forces near its territorial waters and airspace.

Japan fighter aircraft were scrambled 448 times in the last nine months – a 14 percent decrease from the same timeframe last ...

NAHA, Okinawa — A Japanese court has awarded about $16.3 million to Okinawans affected by Kadena Air Base aircraft noise, the latest ruling in a long-running series of lawsuits over noise from U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi holds a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on November 25. - JIJI ...

(Reuters) — Chinese fighter jets directed their fire-control radar at Japanese aircraft over international waters on Saturday near Japan’s Okinawan islands in two separate incidents that Japan’s ...

Japan plans to reinforce its maritime surveillance capabilities by doubling the number of MQ-9B large drones operated by its coast gu ...

The US Air Force is expected to station F-35 fighter jets at Misawa Air Base, a major base in northern Honshu.

In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Japan said on Sunday that Chinese fighter jets had aimed their radar at Japanese military aircraft in two "dangerous" incidents near Japan's Okinawa islands, an account ...