Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force has come up with a new war plan in a culinary battle it is waging against its maritime counterpart. Despite its deep-fried chicken “karaage” recipe long failing to take ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 39-year-old member of the Air Self-Defense Force on a charge of attempted murder after he pushed a man onto the train tracks at JR Okubo Station in Shinjuku Ward. The ...

The nationalist essay that proved the undoing of Air Self-Defense Force chief Gen. Toshio Tamogami was "inappropriate" and "damaged public trust" in the ASDF, his successor, Gen. Kenichiro Hokazono, ...

According to the Nov. 16 editorial "Deviant thinking on defense," the thinking of the recently dismissed Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Toshio Tamogami "permeates the ASDF." If this is true, it ...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatics team is seen flying above central Tokyo, in this photo taken at the Ministry of Defense in the capital's Shinjuku Ward on Aug. 24, 2021, the ...

HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Elite pilot Takahiro Sato adopted a call sign based on the coastline of his hometown after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster razed the coastal area ...

SAYAMA, Saitama -- A Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) 151-model aircraft based on the YS11, the first midsize passenger aircraft developed and manufactured in Japan after World War II, took off ...