Shield AI's V-BAT will be the first-ever shipboard drone used by the Japanese navy to collect intelligence and surveil ...

Before that Japan used foreign weapons (under license) and Japanese designed ones solely for Japanese forces. None could be exported and this drove up production costs. All that has changed. Japan ...

The first deliveries are expected later this year as part of a multi-year deal for what Shield AI says is the first ship-launched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform for the ...

According to the Kyodo news agency, news of the relaxed rule was first reported in January during an expert panel meeting tasked with boosting troop numbers for Japan's Self-Defence Forces (JSDF).

TOKYO -- Japan will create a new maritime transport unit in its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in March as it looks to boost defense of its chain of southern islands reaching down to Okinawa prefecture ...

Catherine Fisher, an Australian woman who was raped by a U.S. serviceman in Japan in 2002, saying that the agreement between Tokyo and Washington over the status of U.S. military forces in Japan, ...

U.S. Forces Japan did not respond to an email or phone calls on Thursday seeking comment. The Department of Defense currently requires corrective action to be taken if levels of PFOS and PFOA ...

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and his Australian counterpart, Linda Reynolds, agreed to create a framework for Japan to protect Australian Defense Force assets, including warships, on Oct. 19.

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Washington plans to give operational command authority to U.S. forces in Japan to bolster coordination with the Self-Defense Forces, Japanese government sources said. The U.S. government will ...