The number of Japanese aged between 18 and 26 who are eligible to join the SDF fell from about 17.43 million in fiscal 1994 to 11.05 million in fiscal 2018, a nearly 40-percent decrease brought on ...

According to the defense ministry, there have been four instances where an SDF aircraft transported Japanese expats and others. In 2004 when foreign nationals including Japanese were caught in a ...

Japan's parliament. It comprises three key pillars--boosting public-private cooperation, utilizing communications information, and breaking into servers and rendering threats harmless. The SDF and ...

A second defense priority for the alliance is ... explore with Japan how U.S. forces might collocate with their Japanese SDF partners, and how base consolidation for U.S. forces in Japan can ...

Reactions to the visit were mixed, ranging from cautious optimism to skepticism about the evolving relationship between the ...

Syria’s interim president is in the Turkish capital for talks expected to focus on Syria’s economic recovery and the presence ...

Hinokuchi said, "I sincerely felt relieved that the man made a full recovery." (Japanese original by Hiroaki Goto, Kyushu News Department) ...

A car bomb killed 20 people in northern Syria Monday, authorities said, vowing to punish those behind the attack in an area ...

(Mainichi) FUKUOKA -- A former Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF ... The woman alleges the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) ignored her reports and failed to take appropriate measures, such as ...