An anti-missile battery was deployed Tuesday to Hakodate, Hokkaido, placing it near the flight paths of ballistic missiles recently launched by North Korea. The battery was moved to a Ground Self-Defense Force camp in the city from an Air Self-Defense Force base about 70 km ...
The Ground Self-Defense Force began three days of live-fire drills near Mount Fuji Thursday, an annual exercise that comes as regional tensions have flared following a war of words between the United States and North Korea. Around 2,400 soldiers, as well as tanks, field guns ...
The Defense Ministry has not yet produced a report on the alleged mishandling of daily activity logs written by Ground Self-Defense Force troops during their peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.
The Defense Ministry fears that a Ground Self-Defense Force aircraft crashed Monday in Hokkaido while heading to an airport to pick up an emergency medical patient, officials said. Ground control lost contact with the LR-2 reconnaissance plane, carrying four male crew members, at around 11:45 ...
The Ground Self-Defense Force took a step Monday toward creating an amphibious force similar to the U.S. Marine Corps by establishing a new unit that will train members of the envisioned brigade. The GSDF amphibious brigade, to be launched at the end of the next ...
GSDF personnel participating in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan have been involved in about 50 traffic accidents since the start of their deployment in January of 2012.
Inspector general’s office looking into whether Defense Ministry intentionally concealed documents.
Newly disclosed daily reports filed by Japanese troops on a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan reveal that gunshots were heard as late as September last year from their camp in the capital Juba. Large-scale armed clashes occurred in Juba in July of last year. ...
The Ground Self-Defense Force on Monday partially opened to the media exercises for potentially dangerous new mission parameters during U.N. peacekeeping operations in South Sudan starting next month. The new parameters, enabled by security legislation that took effect in March, have stirred controversy in Japan ...
Noise levels from a U.S. Marine Corps. MV-22 Osprey were measured Monday when it arrived at the Ground Self-Defense Force's camp in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture. The GSDF plans to introduce the tilt-rotor transport aircraft in stages beginning in late fiscal 2018, and the Kisarazu camp ...
The Defense Ministry is making final arrangements to allow Ground Self-Defense Force personnel to be sent to South Sudan, possibly in mid-November, to conduct a fresh mission in a limited area under new security laws, according to a government source. The mission, focusing on rescuing ...
Nine Ground Self-Defense Force members shot as many as 79 live rounds at one another by mistake in an exercise in Hokkaido on Monday, the GSDF said Tuesday. A sergeant in his 30s and a leading private in his 20s sustained minor injuries when their ...
