Taking Off With the Japanese Navy
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Tokyo has the sixth largest military budget in the world -- and some killer toys to show for it
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Japan forces through a bill allowing a naval support mission for US-led forces in Afghanistan to resume.
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First drives due to ship in Japan in November.
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By Fauziah Ismail  MALAYSIA could well intensify its space exploration programme with the assistance of Japan, which has already sent five astronauts into space.
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Japan's military conducts exercises to see whether a missile defence shield could be deployed in central Tokyo.
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A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier battle group is heading from Hong Kong to the shores of Sumatra. The first of many Air Force C-130 cargo planes has landed in Indonesia with a load of blankets, plastic sheeting and medicines.
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The U.S. Navy's oldest ship in full active service embarks on its last major maneuvers
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The U.S. and Japanese navies have  worked out common rules for their advanced warships designed to  shoot down enemy ballistic missiles, the U.S. Navy's Pacific  Fleet said on Friday ahead of a milestone test.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell is beginning his four-day trip to East Asia Saturday with a visit to Japan. In the coming days, Mr.
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The U.S. and Japanese navies have worked out common rules for their advanced warships designed to shoot down enemy ballistic missiles, the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet said on Friday ahead of a milestone test.
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Japan&#39;s relationship with North Korea had never been an easy one. During the long Cold War period the two adversaries were locked in verbal battles, in which North Korea was always on the offensive by accusing
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A U.S. Navy destroyer with  long-range missile-tracking equipment has begun patrols in the  Sea of Japan, officials said on Friday, in a key step toward  forming a missile-defense system intended to guard against  attack by nations like North Korea.
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Japan&#39;s navy went on alert Wednesday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country&#39;s southern waters near Okinawa and Tokyo was trying to determine where the vessel came from.
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Japan offers to help build one for the Indian Ocean.
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Japan TOKYO -- Japan lodged a formal protest with Beijing yesterday after determining that a nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters without identifying itself belonged to China. Japan's navy had been on alert since Wednesday, when the submarine was first spotted off the nation's southern island of Okinawa. Tokyo sent reconnaissance aircraft and naval destroyers to shadow the submarine, ...
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Reports out of Japan claim that there are activities in North Korea implying that the country may be preparing to launch one of its ballistic missiles.
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A Japanese navy destroyer shot down  a ballistic missile on Monday in a test about 100 miles over  the Pacific Monday, a first for a U.S. ally, U.S. and Japanese  forces said.