Long before the outbreak of World War 2, the Empire of Japan began an expansionist policy to stop the influence of Western ...

A non-commissioned officer pleaded guilty to domestic violence by strangulation during his court-martial June 20 at the Camp Zama ...

Ogata, an infantry officer with 22 years in the JGSDF, is the vice inspector general, Ground Staff Office. The path for Ogata’s attendance at TIGS started in 2019, when his predecessor was ...

TOKYO — A serving of wasabi can be its own punishment, but rarely for two. A Japanese officer has been suspended for a month for forcing a subordinate soldier, who was caught dozing, to eat the ...

TOKYO —Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years after World War II ended, refusing to believe it was over, died ...

Some Japanese Americans nonetheless managed to serve in World War II, demonstrating their resolve and courage on the ...

The top military officers of South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold talks in Seoul next week to discuss efforts ...

Every now & then high Japanese Army officers explode with the statement that "our peasantry are so poor they are eating grass!" In some parts of Japan at some seasons this is true, ...

Only the Meiji would know. Firm in this conviction a spruce file of puzzled Japanese Army officers rode out from Tokyo one dawn last week to a pungent park of pine and camphor trees. They crossed a ...

An 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base Wednesday, killing two of them, officials said.

Members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces at the Gifu military base, after the fatal shooting, June 14, 2023. AP Two dead, one wounded. The deadly outcome of a shootout triggered by a new ...