At the height of the Pacific War, a strange theory about how long emaciated soldiers would live gained currency among starving Japanese troops fighting U.S. forces on the island of Guadalcanal.

The second thing I learned is that Japan isn’t big on street signs. The third thing? It’s the perfect place to be thrown into the deep end when you are brand-new to being a military spouse.

Okinawa, accounting for less than 1 percent of Japan's total land mass, hosts 70 percent of U.S. military bases in the country. According to official statistics, from 1972 to 2023, U.S. soldiers ...

A soldier from Gateshead is currently in Japan for the first overseas training exercise of his Army career. Jude Danks, 19, has been working with the Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Japan and the Philippines will convey to President-elect Donald Trump the urgent need for the U.S. to remain committed to help uphold the rule of law in an Asian region ...

American commanders said it would save money and the lives of American servicemen and Japanese soldiers and civilians too. They said that to continue the war for weeks or months with conventional ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his Japanese counterpart agreed during their first phone call to expand their nations’ joint military presence around Japanese islands in the East China Sea ...

The delegation from the PLA’s Eastern Theatre Command will visit some military units and meet leaders of the Japanese Ministry of Defence and the Joint Staff of the Self-Defence Forces ...

Japan aims to not only continue raising the budget for its military aid program over the coming years but also expand the number of recipient countries, with the Foreign Ministry considering up to ...

A soldier from Gateshead is currently in Japan for the first overseas training exercise of his Army career. Jude Danks, 19, has been working with the Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces to practice ...