Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed a reinterpretation of Japan’s postwar constitution to allow the military to use force alongside other national militaries, a right that postwar Japanese leaders ...

Japan on Monday formally established a permanent Joint Operations Command that will centrally oversee the three branches of the Self-Defense Forces, allowing for the smoother integration of operations ...

Japan’s Self-Defense Force is having to step up as never before in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami. The last week has produced an inordinate number of analyses and anecdotal stories ...

Even before the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) seized power in September 2009, Japanese leaders’ efforts to reform the country’s security policies had stalled. The trajectory that popular Prime ...

Japan launched its new Joint Operations Command on Monday to better integrate all three branches of its Self-Defense Forces. The move is expected to reinforce the SDF's organizational strength by ...

CHIKUJO, Fukuoka Prefecture--The Self-Defense Forces are back in business with a boot camp program for companies wanting to toughen up new hires. “Enlistment experience” at SDF camps and bases dropped ...

Speaking to Kyodo News on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro said that revising Article 9 of Japan's supreme law, which renounces war and bans Japan from possessing a military, to define the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s timing was impeccable: July 1 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF), the de-fanged fighting force that has protected ...