The Japanese government is taking uncomfortable steps to prepare its citizens for a possible future war that its military ...

In a world beset by conflict in the Middle East and an enduring war in Ukraine, tensions are again heating up in East Asia.

Japan helped build a new jetty at Auki Harbor, pictured above, in the Solomon Islands. The nation’s officials have welcomed investments from international partners other than China. American, ...

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Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the ...

Bristling with armaments and seemingly strong, the current ad hoc Western coalition may yet prove, like NATO, vulnerable to sudden setbacks from rising partisan pressures. The USS Nimitz and USS ...

As the United States rethinks its role in the international order it has championed since the end of World War II, Japan is on the frontlines of the challenge to rules-based commerce and diplomacy.

A map shows where Japan will conduct a large-scale exercise on land and in waters and airspace around the archipelagic country later this month, as the United States security ally faces growing ...

On this day in 1941, New Zealand formally declared war on Japan, after the shock attack on Pearl Harbour triggered a global ...