Japan’s long-standing status as a non-nuclear power is under fresh scrutiny after a report argued that the country could assemble its own nuclear weapons within roughly three years. The claim has sharpened regional anxieties,

A fundamental change came in December 2022 when former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government adopted a security strategy stating the need for Japan to acquire strike-back capability with long-range missiles, a major break from Japan’s self-defense-only policy.

Experts have claimed that if its wanted to, Japan could develop its own nuclear weapons stockpile in a matter of years.

Japan reaffirmed its decades-old pledge never to possess nuclear weapons on Friday after local media reported that a senior security official

Japan’s recent militaristic rhetoric has provoked the wrath of North Korea—but no one in Asia has any idea how Pyongyang will actually respond yet.

As part of this effort, Japan is buying standoff weapons like the U.S.-made AGM-158 JASSM, which can be deployed from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-35s and F-15s. Additionally, in Jan. 2024, Tokyo ordered 400 BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack ...

Japan and the Philippines agreed this week to boost cooperation on weapons and military technology amid Chinese aggression in the East and South China seas. Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and his Philippine counterpart, Gilberto Teodoro, pledged ...

TOKYO — Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify its strike-back capability and coastal defense with cruise missiles and unmanned arsenals as tensions rise in the region.