The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARBD) is set up to conduct landing operations to retake Japanese territory.

Japan is in the process of building a miniature amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) demonstrator that, if all goes according to plan, will result in a full-scale demonstrator by October of..

TOKYO -- Japan will create a new maritime transport unit in its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) in March as it looks to boost defense of its chain of southern islands reaching down to Okinawa prefecture ...

The U.S. Navy and the Japan Ground Self Defense Force conducted a joint military exercise last week in the Philippine Sea. The Japanese defense minister is reportedly arranging a visit to India in ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Defense Ministry plans to start relocating 14 Self-Defense Forces command centers underground by the end of fiscal 2025, to better protect vital facilities in the event of a ...

A pair of People’s Liberation Army Navy frigates sailed around Japan’s southwest islands from this week, while a PLAN intelligence… USNI News is the independent, non-profit news service of ...

A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, is stationed in the Sea of Japan at a particularly fraught time for the Asia-Pacific region. The carrier’s deployment coincides with ...

Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force take a rest during the field exercise "Vigilant Isles 22" at Soumagahara Maneuvering Ground on Nov. 26, 2022, in Shinto Village, Gunma, Japan.

The Japanese Ministry of Defence stated that in fiscal year 2023, which ends March 31, only 9,959 people joined the Self-Defense Forces (JSDF). Meanwhile, they planned to hire as many as 19,598 ...

August 30, 2023: For more than a decade Japan has been moving away from its post-World War II military policy of concentrating on self-defense ... aggressive defense policy and spent a lot more on ...

As our very own National Youth Service campaign in form of advertisements to encourage more youth to join, the Japan Self-Defense Forces are doing the same but in a totally different twist.

the United States began to help in rearming Japan. By 1954, the Self-Defense Forces were officially formed to take over the role of protecting the Japanese nation while the United States used ...