Can Japan be a major player in the international defense sector, like its neighbor South Korea?

What's behind Tokyo's shift away from pacifist policy? As tensions with China and North Korea rise, Australia and the Philippines are set to be early partners.

The approval clears a final set of hurdles for Japan's postwar arms sales and facilitate its future sale of weapons such as a next-generation fighter jet and combat drones.

The move, which opponents say will raise global tensions, comes as the U.S. ally accelerates its military buildup in the face of growing security challenges in the region.

A senior Japanese official’s suggestion that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has reignited debate over whether the country could—or would—break with a decades-old taboo in response to an ...

In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified. The eminent diplomat Henry ...

Japan's defense environment transformed to allow 'lethal weapons' exports to with allies and like-minded countries.

Japan could soon sell weapons overseas, including fighter jets, in a shift from its decades-old pacifist policy.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has traveled to the Philippines to witness an international combat drill and ...

Japan on Tuesday scrapped a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change in its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks ...