Japan helped build a new jetty at Auki Harbor, pictured above, in the Solomon Islands. The nation’s officials have welcomed investments from international partners other than China. American, ...

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This episode examines the Battle of Midway, the decisive 1942 clash that turned the tide of the Pacific War. We trace how U.S. codebreakers uncovered Japan’s plan to ambush the American fleet, setting ...

The navies of Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States conducted a Maritime Cooperative Activity in the South China Sea, Apr. 7, 2024. Credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication ...

A map shows where Japan will conduct a large-scale exercise on land and in waters and airspace around the archipelagic country later this month, as the United States security ally faces growing ...

Japan will begin building bomb shelters next year on its remote islands closest to Taiwan, amid fears that its far western territory could become a legitimate target for Chinese missiles if China and ...

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the ...

As the United States rethinks its role in the international order it has championed since the end of World War II, Japan is on the frontlines of the challenge to rules-based commerce and diplomacy.

A single torpedo salvo from I-19, often called one of the most damaging in submarine warfare history, singlehandedly crippled an entire carrier task force. Commissioned in the early days of World War ...

As North Korea continues to advance its nuclear capabilities along with long-range missiles and China’s potential invasion of Taiwan, along with U.S. military responses, dominates discussions on Far ...