A Chinese navy J-15 fighter jet is seen over the Pacific Ocean on June 8, 2025, when it made an unusually close approach to a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C patrol aircraft. The same model, ...

The draft defense budget sets a new spending record for the 12th straight year amid mounting regional threats and U.S.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2025, after inspecting the area. (Pool photo) TOKYO -- Amid a diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing over ...

Japan's Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro says the country was not given sufficient information to avoid danger after at least one Chinese fighter jet aimed its radar intermittently at Japanese Air ...

Japan's top government spokesperson has rejected China's claim that Japanese Air Self-Defense Force aircraft approached the Chinese navy's training airspace and sea area to disrupt training activities ...

Chinese navy combat aircraft twice locked radar on Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) fighter jets, which were on a surveillance mission over international waters southeast of Okinawa's main ...

China may have tested Japan and the United States to see their response through military actions by its aircraft carrier Liaoning and bombers near Japan in December, Jiji Press has learned. The ...

In response to continuing military buildups by China and North Korea, the Japanese government has set defense-related spending at a record 9,035.3 billion yen under its draft fiscal 2026 budget ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told a press conference that the Air Self-Defense Force jets had kept a “safe distance” from Chinese military aircraft off Japan’s southernmost prefecture of ...

Government officials considered not announcing that a Chinese fighter jet had locked its radar on an Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jet over international waters but feared a recurrence if not ...

For general information about ASDF, consult the web page: https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/ For some reference documentation, read the manual: https://common-lisp ...