Beginning on 7 April, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) will deploy a unit of soldiers from the 15th Brigade on Miyako Island in Okinawa prefecture. Miyako is one of the Sakishima Islands ...

Japan began developing a domestically produced unmanned AAV in 2024, and materials recently disclosed by the Ministry of ...

The Japanese MoD announced the selection results from separate competitions for a new rifle and pistol for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) on 6 December. The Howa5.56, designed by Howa ...

In early September, the 107th Squadron conducted takeoff and landing training with the V-22 on the JMSDF destroyer Izumo, while the sister ship JS Kaga will soon start trials with the F-35B. The Japan ...

A V-22 Osprey aircraft bound for the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) based at Camp Kisarazu departs Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, Japan, July 10, 2020. US Marine Corps Photo Japan’s ...

The Japanese Defense Ministry claimed on Thursday that helicopters of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) were targeted by lasers in Shizuoka Prefecture on Tuesday and Wednesday. While an ...

USS BONHOMME RICHARD, At Sea -- The chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) visited the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) Sept. 23, to meet ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan (Oct. 28, 2019) -- A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force officer was inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit, an honor normally reserved for U.S. Army Medical Department ...

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) has taken delivery of its second Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. The aircraft, which is one of two Ospreys that arrived at US Marine Corps ...

Five Soldiers from Camp Zama and six Marines from Camp Hanson in Okinawa toured Japan Ground Self Defense Force's largest chemical unit Aug. 24 at Camp Omiya in the Saitama Prefecture, located ...

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) put its Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft into service on 6 November, making it the first international partner to operate the US-made platform, ...

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force is moving closer to developing a senior noncommissioned officer system based on the U.S. Army’s command sergeants major. It is the last of ...