The Defense Ministry said it will create an elite unit within the Ground Self-Defense Force to respond swiftly to emergencies, such as evacuating Japanese nationals from conflict zones. Set to be ...

SAGA--A landowners association has decided to sell property next to Saga Airport here, clearing the way for a controversial new Ground Self-Defense Force base for Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft.

Two Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force members who died Sunday during a training exercise at the Hijudai maneuver area in Oita Prefecture were killed by electrocution caused by lightning, the GSDF ...

Under the agreement, the GSDF will carry and install traps, transport hunters to sites and remove bear carcasses, among other tasks, in the prefecture through the end of November. Around half of the ...

Japan will regularly deploy the Ground Self-Defense Force’s marine unit to Australia, the two countries’ defense chiefs said Sunday, in a boost for trilateral cooperation alongside Washington that is ...

A 5.56 mm Minimi machine gun, the same type that fell and hit a Ground Self-Defense Force sergeant during rope descent training, is pictured in this image provided by the GSDF. A falling machine gun ...

People might be wondering why so long between exercises. Probably because exercises on such a scale cost a lot of money and afterwards require a lot of maintenance and preservation work on vehicles ...

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force will end its support for capturing bears Sunday, as scheduled. The GSDF had been helping in response to deadly bear attacks on humans in Akita Prefecture in the ...