Key Points and Summary – Japan’s Taigei-class submarines are purpose-built for the Indo-Pacific’s decisive geography. -They ...

Key Points - Japan's Taigei-class ("Big Whale") diesel-electric attack submarines, with four completed by 2025 including the recently commissioned JS Raigei, represent a significant leap in ...

Australia and Japan should codevelop a long-range conventional submarine as the centrepiece of a formal defence pact to ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s military said it dispatched a surveillance plane and a navy ship Tuesday after spotting a Russian submarine off the coast of a southwestern island near Taiwan. The Russian ...

Japan is making bold moves to change its anti-war culture. That’s not by choice. It’s out of necessity. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) is enhancing its size and capabilities because Tokyo ...

Russia’s most advanced submarine was spotted for the first time in waters near Japan, the country’s military announced Monday. A Yasen-class nuclear-powered submarine accompanied by a flotilla of ...

Japan’s military said it dispatched a surveillance aircraft and a navy ship on Tuesday after spotting a Russian submarine off the coast of a southwestern island near Taiwan. The Russian Kilo-class ...

Japan wants NEC to buy its own undersea cable-laying ships and is considering covering nearly half the purchase cost of these ...

TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japan will get the chance to pursue an unprecedented military export deal when its defense and foreign ministers meet their Australian counterparts in Tokyo next month. Japan ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan protested to China on Friday after a foreign submarine in waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea was confirmed to be Chinese, calling it a unilateral action and a ...

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is reviewing the country's submarine cable supply chain, and in talks ...