North Korea vs Japan - Military Power Comparison 2018

Japan vs North Korea - Who Would Win - Military Comparison

Why Is Japan Rearming?

Meet the Robots Powering Japan's New Tech Movement

Japan- Innovative Technology

Japan’s Future Defense Equipment Policy

What are Japan’s future national security policies for dealing with these challenges? One of the most significant challenges for Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) is the acquisition of defense equipment because it has structural problems in terms of limited budget and long lead time. Japan has altered its defense equipment policies to relax its self-imposed ban on arms exports and established a new MOD acquisition agency that has consolidated numerous acquisition-related branches in MOD.

Japanese QZSS Satellite Orbit Visualisation

The Japanese Military Is Building a Robotic Exoskeleton

If anyone can craft Iron Man style robotic armor, it’s Japan, right? Don’t hold your breath. As the U.S. military has learned, exoskeletons are still a long way from the battlefield.

How Japan May Have American Northrop Grumman’s YF-23 Black Widow In Its Air Force?

In what could be a major development, Japan may have one of the most lethal fighter jet in near future through the F 3 program.Japan’s F-3  program is aimed at developing an indigenous 5th generation fighter.

The Meaning of Japan's New Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade Launch

On March 27, 2018, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) underwent its most significant structural reform since its formation in 1954 with the creation of a unified command and the launch of an Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) tasked with defending Japan’s remote islands. However, manufacturing delays and local opposition to stationing the V-22 Osprey will cause major setbacks to the new amphibious capability becoming operational.

Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force Appoints First Woman to Command Warship Squadron

The Self-Defense Forces, like the wider economy, is turning to women to make up a shortfall in personnel as the nation’s working age population shrinks amid a drop in birthrates. The number of people aged between 18 and 26 is forecast by the government to shrink to 7 million people by 2065 from 11 million last year.

Japan’s Courts Are Being Asked to Define the Role of the SDF

There have been indications the SDF wants to be the conventional military that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has in mind, but that doesn’t mean the entire organization agrees with this direction.  After the Cabinet decided in 2015 to allow the SDF to participate in collective self-defense overseas, an active Ground SDF member brought a suit against the government demanding that it clarify if he would have to go abroad if the SDF was ordered to do so.