Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force plans to resume live-fire training at a gun range later this month, nearly one year after a fatal shooting incident.

Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marine Corps are conducting joint exercises designed to practice recapturing remote Japanese islands that will continue through March 17.

The prefecture of Okinawa on Wednesday marks the 52nd anniversary of its reversion to Japan from post-war US rule. This comes as Japan strengthens its defense capabilities in the prefecture.

TOKYO -- A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) regiment has created a stir by using the term "Greater East Asia War" to refer to the Pacific War in a post on social media in reference to a ...

The crash of a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force helicopter off the coast of Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture is believed to have been caused by a loss of engine power.

The lieutenant colonel was serving as a commander of a GSDF unit on the northernmost of Japan's main islands at the time, and had intended "to raise the spirits" of the unit, the ministry said. In ...

Nine months after the Defense Ministry pledged to take drastic measures, it has no plans to implement a national system for reviewing training standards.

The new training ground was considered necessary because the GSDF's 15th Brigade ... defenses for the Nansei Islands in southwest Japan in response to an increasingly militant China.

About a month has passed since U.S. forces in Japan and Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) resumed their Osprey flights in this country. The defense authorities claim that they can operate ...

The power of the magnitude 7.5 quake in Japan can be seen in just how much the ground moved. It rose up by more than 4m (13ft) in places and moved sideways by over a metre. Earthquake-prone Japan ...