When the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force wants to improve their inspector general system, they know where to turn. JGSDF Lt. Col. Koichi Ogata ...

A Japanese officer will be suspended for a month for forcing another soldier to eat wasabi.

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – Liaison officers assigned to U.S. Army Japan gathered here last week to update staff members on events and operations being conducted by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force armies ...

Right after World War II, a crucial alliance between the two countries fell apart. We are still paying the price.

O'BRIEN RECALLED; The Army Officer Who Went to Japan to Observe the War. THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT PORT ARTHUR Lieut. O'Brien Saw Evidences of Cruelty on the Part of Both Japanese and Chinese Soldiers.

The Japanese army on Wednesday has begun deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys on a newly-opened, permanent base in southwestern Japan, the latest move to beef up its defense in the region amid growing ...

The war in the Pacific may have ended on Sept. 2, 1945, for just about everyone, but for Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, the conflict persisted for nearly three decades ...

A Navy surface warfare officer has been charged with murder in the death of his wife, Jesse Arguinzoni Olsen, in Fukuoka, Japan, in October. Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Olsen, currently assigned to ...

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, ...

Officials say an 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base, killing two of them.

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 ...

Instructors at a military leadership course gave field grade and warrant officers a lesson in communicating complex ideas in a simple format. Their chosen medium: a haiku. Haikus are a Japanese ...