Japan has launched a new Taigei-class sub every year since 2020. These "Big Whale" subs are expected to hunt Chinese warships should a war break out. Their advanced capabilities and stealth make them ...

Key Points - Japan's Taigei-class ("Big Whale") diesel-electric attack submarines, with four completed by 2025 including the recently commissioned JS Raigei, represent a significant leap in ...

Japan is making bold moves to change its anti-war culture. That’s not by choice. It’s out of necessity. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) is enhancing its size and capabilities because Tokyo ...

Japan on December 26 approved $58 billion (9.04 trillion yen) defense budget for fiscal year 2026, as Tokyo faces growing ...

TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japan will get the chance to pursue an unprecedented military export deal when its defense and foreign ministers meet their Australian counterparts in Tokyo next month. Japan ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese submarine will visit the Philippines for the first time in 15 years, along with two warships that will then sail on to Vietnam, in a show of support for nations opposed to ...

The Japanese Navy included five Type A midget submarines in the Pearl Harbor raid of 7 December 1941. Transported on board large I type submarines, the midgets were launched near the entrance to Pearl ...

TOKYO — Japan’s military said it dispatched a surveillance plane and a navy ship Tuesday after spotting a Russian submarine off the coast of a southwestern island near Taiwan. The Russian Kilo-class ...

Japan's Ministry of Defense announced in December 2025 that it had suspended Kawasaki Heavy Industries from bidding on ...

Japan is making bold moves to change its anti-war culture. That’s not by choice. It’s out of necessity. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) is enhancing its size and capabilities because Tokyo ...