Japan approved a record defence budget for 2025, focusing on long-range missiles and deploying Tomahawks. The budget includes spending on m...

The approved budget keeps Japan on track to boost military spending by 43 trillion yen over five years as it seeks to bolster defences in a...

The budget request was approved at the defence ministry meeting Thursday and submitted to the finance ministry for negotiations. The reques...

Japan has approved a new national security strategy this week, which includes a pledge to have the potential to "counterstrike" to deter en...

North Korea launched missiles more than 30 times this year alone including one that overflew Japan, and China fired ballistic missiles into...

The procurement plan unveiled in the Ministry of Defence's annual budget request represents a clear departure from a decades-long range lim...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, meeting U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday, pledged to "substantially increase" Japan's defence budget.

The 1.05 trillion yen (USD8.6 billion) host nation support budget covers the purchase of advanced arsenals used in their joint military exe...

The higher spending plan follows a meeting in April between U.S. President Joe Biden and Japan's then-premier Yoshihide Suga, in which Suga...

Japan's military spending and capabilities have grown continuously since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in December 2012, ris...

Among the key items of military spending are 57.6 billion yen to develop a next-generation fighter and 33.5 billion yen for the development...

If approved, the plan would continue a build-up pursued by Suga's predecessor Shinzo Abe, that has seen Japan buy planes, missiles and airc...

The Ministry of Defence budget proposal released on Friday calls for defence spending to rise 2.1 percent to 5.3 trillion yen ($48 billion)...

Japan needs more powerful detection in order for its new longer-range interceptor missiles to provide more effective defence against North ...

The govt expects domestic private share in defence budget to go up by 20% in four years after liberalising the FDI regime and ‘Make in Indi...

Defence spending in China and four other Asian countries doubled over 10 years and will surpass Europe's military expenditures this year.

US Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer urged Japan to boost its defence outlay to strengthen a bilateral security alliance with the United...