YAMATO, Kumamoto Prefecture--Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Army demonstrated on Aug. 28 here the deadly accuracy of the Javelin anti-tank missile system, which Ukraine has ...
In November 2023, a U.S. Osprey from the Yokota air base in Tokyo crashed off the island of Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, ...
The building housing the Tokyo High Court is seen in this Jan. 16, 2015 file photo. (Mainichi) The Tokyo High Court on Jan. 31 set aside a lower court decision dismissing a Ground Self-Defense Force ...
The Japanese Self-Defence Force (SDF), and in particular the Ground Self-Defence Force (GSDF), has been making headlines in the past few months for its brave and relentless relief efforts in the ...
The Ground Self-Defense Force next month will conduct its first drill in Japan using long-range missiles to prepare the nation for maritime threats, particularly China’s expanding naval activities.
A Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) member was protecting a comrade when he was fatally struck by a rock from the Jan. 23 eruptions on Mount Kusatsu-Shirane's Motoshirane peak, a source close to the ...
Bullet and commuter trains were suspended for around three hours Tuesday as personnel from the Ground Self-Defense Force detonated a wartime antiaircraft shell found at a northern Tokyo construction ...
CAMP ZAMA, Japan — Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Maj. Gen. Elbert N. Perkins. Only MacArthur has been commanding general of U.S. Army Japan longer than Perkins, who is slated to retire Monday following a 35 ...
The Japanese government has announced plans to deploy Ground Self-Defense Force members to help in the decontamination of areas inside the 20-km exclusion zone around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi ...