Japan now operates dozens of advanced F-35 stealth fighters—including the F-35B STOVL variant, based on its two quasi-aircraft carriers.

Japan plans to expand the number of bases hosting advanced F-35A stealth fighter jets amid neighboring countries’ military activities and air power modernization efforts. Chitose Air Base on Hokkaido, ...

Though Europe has a long military history in Asia, it is quite rare for an Asian nation to send ships or aircraft to Europe, ...

Japanese forces tracked Chinese ships and aircraft transiting through Japan’s southwest region during the same period, while ...

Kadena Air Base has hosted American fighter aircraft from the U.S. mainland, Alaska, Hawaii and Germany since November 2022.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said early Sunday that it has protested to China after a military jet that took off from the Chinese carrier Liaoning locked its radar on Japanese fighter jets near the southern ...

Japan has protested after Chinese fighter jets locked radars on Japanese aircraft as tensions between the two nations worsened. Locking radar onto an aircraft is considered a threat because it can ...

Read full article: Warm weather to give way to colder new year TOKYO – Japan said Monday that Chinese military aircraft locked radar on its fighter jets even though there was a safe distance between ...