The site on uninhabited Kushima island in the Sea of Japan was apparently intended to serve as a base for Koryu-class midget submarines developed for special attacks to defend mainland Japan.

The Japanese missile can evade defenses by traveling at more than five times the speed of sound and maneuvering within the ...

According to official statistics, from 1972 to 2023, U.S. soldiers stationed on the southern island ... and the Japanese government decided to start the construction of the Henoko base in August ...

A year before the reversion, then-Okinawa leader Chobyo Yara submitted a petition asking Japan’s central government to make the island free of military bases. Today, however, a majority of the ...

Japanese officials are touting a new Ground Self-Defense Force base on Ishigaki Island as a crucial final component in the country’s line of defense against China. But residents of the island ...

[Reuters] Public sentiment toward U.S. military bases on the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa ... deployed in numerous bases across the main island, including some in the middle of built ...

According to the Japanese Defense Ministry, the island defense missile began mass production in fiscal year 2023, which ran from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024. The Japanese Defense Ministry ...