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

China displays its J-15 fighter jets at an air show in Zhuhai, in this file photograph from June last year [Getty Images] Japan has protested after Chinese fighter jets locked radars on Japanese ...

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 ...

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.

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Russia and China have regularly dispatched forces to waters and airspace around Japanese territory.

Tokyo (AP) — Japan said Monday that Chinese military aircraft locked radar on its fighter jets even though there was a safe distance between them, denying Beijing’s accusation of interference and ...

Completed late in World War II, one Japanese aircraft carrier entered service without a functional air group due to severe ...

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

TOKYO — Defense ministers from Japan and Britain hailed their “deep strategic alignment” on Thursday as a Royal Navy aircraft carrier made its first port call in Tokyo. The HMS Prince of Wales, which ...

TOKYO — Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers have operated together for the first time in the Pacific, fueling Tokyo’s concern about Beijing’s rapidly expanding military ...

A student was injured this time. — -- For the second time in less than a week, a part from a U.S. military aircraft has fallen on a school in Okinawa, Japan. A Marine CH-53E helicopter window ...