TOKYO — The United States has approved a $900 million missile sale to Japan, the third major arms purchase of its kind by the ...

While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific ...

President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

Several years ago the U.S. Navy put as many as ten DDG 51 Flight III guided-missile destroyers on contract to help catapult the service into a new dimension of maritime... The Japanese military is ...

The Chinese military has frequently dispatched air and naval forces around Japan's islands, which form part of a blockade ...

Japanese officials were waiting for a U.S. reaction to Kono’s decision because not having the Aegis Ashore system in Japan would affect Washington’s own missile defense plans.

conducted the first successful intercept of a ballistic missile target from the island using the Aegis Guam System, which fired a land-based interceptor of the type that US Navy ships have used to ...