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.

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Air Force's aerobatic flight team will stage an air show in Saudi Arabia next month after making a stopover in Japan for refueling, officials said Wednesday. The Black Eagles team plans to ...