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 ...

More elements of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s (JGSDF) Network Electronic Warfare System (NEWS) appeared at the Fuji Firepower event in late August. The NEWS Type 4 had joined this event in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ITAMI, Japan – The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Australian Army and U.S. Army will conduct exercise Yama Sakura 89, Aug. 25-31 primarily at Camp Itami, Hyogo Prefecture and Camp Asaka, Tokyo.

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit gathered with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force to celebrate the start of Exercise Iron Fist 2014 during an opening ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...