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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Japan has taken delivery of its first three Lockheed Martin F-35B stealth fighters. The short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft arrived at Nyutabaru Air Base in southern Miyazaki prefecture on ...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's F-15 fighters holding a joint military drill with the U.S. B-52 bomber on Dec. 10, 2025. (Japan's Ministry of Defense/AP) Japan is barreling forward with efforts to ...