The move, which opponents say will raise global tensions, comes as the U.S. ally accelerates its military buildup in the face ...

Japan could soon sell weapons overseas, including fighter jets, in a shift from its decades-old pacifist policy.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reversed limits on arms exports as Japan faces rising threats from China and unpredictability ...

Japan is to lift a postwar ban on weapons exports this week as it moves away from a pacifist stance that has defined defence ...

In a break from post-war pacifism, Japan has scrapped its ban on arms exports to make way for overseas sales of fighter ...

Tokyo has scrapped rules that limited exports to non-combat categories, and introduced a framework that distinguishes between ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...

Japan will join the largest military exercises hosted by the Philippines and the United States for the first time as an ...