A local South Korean court on Tuesday ordered the government to disclose the entire process of negotiations on a botched intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, according to the Yonhap News Agency. The Seoul Administrative Court said the South Korean government should revoke its decision not ...

South Korea, the United States and Japan held two days of search and rescue drills south of the southern island of Jeju on Monday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said. The exercise, known as SAREX, has been held once or twice a year. This week’s ...

Japan on Thursday approved the supply of missile interceptor parts to the United States and the transfer of sensor-related technology to Britain, the Defense Ministry said, in the first major deals since Tokyo eased a ban on arms exports in April. Prime Minister Shinzo ...

China’s demarcation of an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea is escalating the situation and could trigger an unwanted clash, a draft overview of Japan’s upcoming white paper on defense showed Wednesday, taking aim at Beijing for its “unilateral” attempts to ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration will consider creating a permanent law allowing dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces overseas, a comment that could lead to a further rift between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, New Komeito.

The defense for a 22-year-old local man on trial in Guam for the deaths of three Japanese tourists and the wounding of 11 people in February of last year rested its case Wednesday by asserting that he is insane, using testimony by psychiatric experts. ...

The most senior uniformed officers of the Japanese, American and South Korean militaries met Tuesday in Hawaii to discuss trilateral defense cooperation over North Korea. Gen. Shigeru Iwasaki, chief of the Joint Staff of the Self-Defense Forces, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. ...