Japan scrambled fighter jets to respond to Russian bombers, fighters and a surveillance plane at least four times this week ...

The U.S. is scheduled to deploy 48 F-35A aircraft to Misawa Air Base in Japan to replace 36 older F-16 jets.

A relatively new Air Force logistics team out of Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo proved its mettle in recent months by ...

Japan fighter aircraft were scrambled 448 times in the last nine months – a 14 percent decrease from the same timeframe last ...

You may have heard about Japanese fighter jets touring Europe, as well as a few other locations. Here's why they were visiting international locations.

Capt. Jordan Wesemann, a KC-135 tanker pilot, refueled his twin brother Jared's F-35 fighter jet during an exercise in Japan.

The two countries are also planning a meeting between their defence ministers by the end of January. Read more at ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's air force has begun emergency safety inspections on all of its nearly 200 military training aircraft after one of the planes crashed minutes after takeoff, officials said Thursday ...

The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force said Wednesday it will offer refueling support to South Korean military planes for the first time, as an aerobatic team will make stopovers at a base in Okinawa in ...

TOKYO >> U.S. nuclear-capable bombers flew over the Sea of Japan alongside Japanese fighter jets on Wednesday, Tokyo said, in a show of force following Chinese and Russian drills in the skies and seas ...

Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth met in Washington on January 15 to ...