The Japanese government entered the lethal weapons export business after lifting the ban on April 21 by revising the Three Principles on the Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology.

A senior Japanese official’s suggestion that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has reignited debate over whether the country could—or would—break with a decades-old taboo in response to an ...

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Two Japanese workers were reportedly hospitalized in China for injuries they sustained while excavating chemical weapons ...

Japan is removing restrictions on exporting lethal weapons for the first time in 50 years. Japan is feeling more threatened by its neighbors than it has in decades, and that has led to gradual shifts ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Tuesday scrapped a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change in its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry amid worries over Chinese and ...

MANILA, Philippines — Defense chiefs from Japan and the Philippines expressed renewed alarm on Tuesday over what they say is China’s intensifying coercive actions in disputed waters, and agreed to ...