The HMS Prince of Wales may conduct “cross-deck drills” with JS Kaga using aircraft carrier-based F-35Bs. If realized, it ...

Even if effective defense equipment is procured, it will be meaningless if the understanding of the local communities where it will be deployed cannot be obtained. The government must do its utmost to ...

Simultaneously, Japan is also preparing to start training operations at Nyutabaru Air Base for F-35B vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft on contract.

The defense minister said that body parts possibly of a missing crew member of a Self-Defense Force trainer jet that crashed into a lake have been found.

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 training aircraft after one of the planes crashed minutes after takeoff, officials said Thursday.

Two pilots went missing after a plane crashed into a lake in Japan yesterday. The Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) Kawasaki T-4 reportedly went down in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, on ...

The crashed aircraft, which belonged to Nyutabaru Air Base in Miyazaki Prefecture, was manufactured 36 years ago. An investigation into the case is expected to face difficulties as the aircraft ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft after one of the planes crashed minutes after takeoff, officials said ...

Officials say Japan’s air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft after one of them crashed minutes after takeoff ...

Japan is converting two helicopter carriers into its first aircraft carriers since World War II, which will be deployed with the F-35B jets.