SEARCH ENDS FOR 3 U.S. SAILORS MISSING IN NAVY AIRCRAFT CRASH

A search ended Friday for three sailors missing in the Philippine Sea since a U.S. Navy aircraft crashed two days earlier, the navy said... READ MORE›

SHIPS, AIRCRAFT SEARCH PHILIPPINE SEA FOR 3 MISSING IN CRASH

They were taken aboard the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and were in good condition... READ MORE›

CONCERN GROWS AFTER TWO FALSE ALARMS

When the submarine failed to call in, the Argentine navy began its search for the vessel... READ MORE›

ARGENTINA UNSURE IF SATELLITE CALL SIGNALS CAME FROM LOST SUB AS STORMY SEAS STYMIE SEARCH EFFORT

Argentina's Navy could not confirm Sunday if seven brief satellite calls received a day prior were from a lost submarine with 44 crew members on board. We... READ MORE›

JAPANESE TUG BOAT SCRAPES US NAVY SHIP DURING EXERCISE

TOKYO AP -- A Japanese tug boat lost propulsion and drifted into a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer during a towing exercise, the Navy said... READ MORE›

JAPANESE TUG BOAT SCRAPES U.S. NAVY SHIP DURING EXERCISE

The USS Benfold sustained minimal damage, including scrapes on its side, the Navy said in a statement... READ MORE›

RETIRED GENERAL CALLS TRUMP'S 30-DAY ISIS ORDER 'SOPHOMORIC'

Mark Hertling told Anderson Cooper on AC360 on Tuesday... READ MORE›

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR

In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›

JAPANS LOWER HOUSE PASSES BILLS TO GIVE MILITARY FREER HAND TO FIGHT

It complements guidelines in a bilateral agreement governing how Japanese and United States forces work together, which was signed by the two nations this year... READ MORE›

MILITARY EXPERTS SAY CLIMATE CHANGE POSES 'SIGNIFICANT RISK' TO SECURITY

Meanwhile, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has labeled climate change a hoax ... READ MORE›

WARY OF TRUMP UNPREDICTABILITY, CHINA RAMPS UP NAVAL ABILITIES

Still, the PLA Navy significantly lags the United States, which operates 10 aircraft carriers to China's one, the Soviet-era Liaoning... READ MORE›

QUEEN TO LEAD 70TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIONS

In Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe marked the date by expressing profound grief at his country's actions in WW2... READ MORE›

JAPANS CABINET ROCKED BY NEW CLAIMS OF LINKS TO NEO-NAZIS WHO TARGET THE ETHNIC KOREAN POPULATION

Please read our Japan's government is weathering accusations of links to far-right groups that promote racism and hate speech... READ MORE›

JAPANESE DESTROYERS JOIN US STRIKE GROUP AMID TENSIONS ON KOREAN PENINSULA

Washington threatened to solve the 'North Korean problem' unilaterally, arguing that Pyongyang poses a threat to US interests in the region... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM

Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›

AL-SHABAB LAUNCHES DEADLY ATTACK ON ARMY BASE

READ MORE Al-Shabab attacks Somalia army base Al-Shabab aims to topple the government in Mogadishu and impose its strict interpretation of Islam in the country... READ MORE›

JAPANS PARLIAMENT APPROVES OVERSEAS COMBAT ROLE FOR MILITARY

The debate often doubled as a forum for airing views about Japan's most important ally the United States... READ MORE›

JAPAN MARKS 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMBING

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that as the sole country to face nuclear attack, Japan has the duty to push for nuclear weapons elimination... READ MORE›

70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA

Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›

CHINA CONDEMNS U.S. WARSHIP'S ROUTE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA

China claims territorial sovereignty to virtually all of the South China Sea, which includes some of the world's busiest trade routes... READ MORE›

AS ECONOMY FALTERS MILITARY PARADE OFFERS CHANCE TO BURNISH CHINAS IMAGE

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U.S., JAPANESE NAVAL FORCES STAGE SHOW OF STRENGTH

The USS Ronald Reagan and the Japanese warship JS Izumo took part in the fleet review... READ MORE›

JAPAN'S EMPEROR STRIKES MORE APOLOGETIC TONE THAN ABE OVER SECOND WORLD WAR

Beijing says Japan has yet to confront atrocities it committed after invading parts of China in the 1930s... READ MORE›

DESPITE CUTS US ARMY PREPARES FOR THREATS IN EUROPE

Laubenthal of the German Army, who recently became the first non-American appointed to serve as chief of staff of United States Army Europe... READ MORE›

US TELLS ASIAN ALLIES THAT NAVY WILL PATROL NEAR ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA

The United States has refrained from venturing that close to Chinese-occupied islands in the South China Sea since at least 2012... READ MORE›

Soviet submarine sightings caused Cold War security alerts in Sweden in the 1980s... READ MORE›

THE NINE MOST WARMONGERING COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD REVEALED

Overall, Japan is ranked as the eighth-most peaceful country in the world, second only to New Zealand in the Asia-Pacific region... READ MORE›

NEW WORLD WAR? CHINA TARGET OF FRENCH SHIPS JOINING US, JAPAN, UK IN PACIFIC

The expected maneuvers were viewed as a way for France to show China it's military's strength, Reuters reported Friday, citing sources... READ MORE›

'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER

They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... READ MORE›

JAPAN'S AMPHIBIOUS FORCE STILL WELL OUTDISTANCED BY CHINA RIVAL

Then on March 27th, the Japan Ground Self Defense Force formally stood up its new Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade in Sasebo... READ MORE›

EMPEROR OFFERS REMORSE FOR JAPANS WAR ROLE

Emperor Akihito, whose father announced his exhausted country's surrender in World War II, expressed "deep remorse" ..... READ MORE›

SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT IS OPEN TO TALKS WITH ABE

Ties between South Korea and Japan, its former colonizer, have been strained for years, largely over issues rooted in their painful history... READ MORE›

WWII TANK WAS STASHED IN 78-YEAR-OLD'S CELLAR

Prosecutors meanwhile are investigating whether possession of the tank torpedo anti-aircraft gun and other weapons violates Germany's War Weapons Control Act... READ MORE›

JAPAN'S 105-YEAR-OLD GOLDEN BOLT BEATS HIS OWN WORLD SPRINT RECORD

Hidekichi Miyazaki, probably the fastest of Japans 60,000-plus centenarians, says he can keep going for another few years after taking up running aged 90... READ MORE›

WHY TRUMP, AND ASIA, NEED RANDY FORBES AS US NAVY SECRETARY

Such a person will be taking on some of the most serious military challenges America and its Asian allies have faced for decades... READ MORE›

JAPAN PLANS LARGEST EVER DEFENCE BUDGET TO COUNTER CHINA'S REACH

Japan had been making annual cuts to its defence budget for a decade up to 2013... READ MORE›