The Japanese and British defense ministers first announced the deployment of Japanese aircraft and support personnel to NATO bases during the visit of the HMS Prince of Wales to Tokyo.

Japan plays a key role in containing China under the U.S. island chain strategy, which conceives three north-south defensive ...

Tokyo has clearly sought to downplay the fact that its flattops are aircraft carriers—possibly owing to political ...

Japan is deploying eight aircraft, including four F-15 fighter jets, to bases in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Welcome Back to the Daily Aviation as we explore Japan’s military aircraft evolution, from WWII fighters to the F-2, US-2 amphibious plane, and MV-22 Osprey. Voice, text and video editing belong to ...

Firefighters gather for a search operation as a Japanese air force plane crashed after taking off for a training flight, at a pond in Inuyama, central Japan, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Kyodo News via ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has demanded China stop flying its fighter jets abnormally close to Japanese intelligence-gathering aircraft, which it said was happening repeatedly and could cause a collision.

Recent air exercises at a Marine Corps base in Iwakuni, Japan, resulted in noise complaints from irate Japanese citizens—and ...

TOKYO — Japan grounded most of its aging military training aircraft on Wednesday after one of the planes crashed minutes after take off. Two crew are missing after the T-4 training aircraft operated ...