Opposition parties have argued that the performance violated Article 61 of the Self-Defense Forces law, which restricts ...

A promotion office will oversee research and development of unmanned assets, while a systems office will focus on their ...

Credit: Ground Self-Defense Force Japan is moving to institutionalize unmanned warfare capabilities within its Ground ...

Defense Ministry officials are investigating whether members of the Self-Defense Forces violated regulations concerning religious facilities by visiting war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Lt. Gen.

GIFU--A cadet accused of killing two fellow Ground Self-Defense Force members and injuring a third said he shot two of them ...

Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday served a fresh arrest warrant on a Ground Self-Defense Force member accused of trespassing at the Chinese Embassy in the Japanese capital last month.

About 900 members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force started a two-week decontamination operation in Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday. The GSDF forces are helping in Iitate, which is located ...

The building housing the Tokyo High Court is seen in this Jan. 16, 2015 file photo. (Mainichi) The Tokyo High Court on Jan. 31 set aside a lower court decision dismissing a Ground Self-Defense Force ...

A Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) member was protecting a comrade when he was fatally struck by a rock from the Jan. 23 eruptions on Mount Kusatsu-Shirane's Motoshirane peak, a source close to the ...

The Japanese Self-Defence Force (SDF), and in particular the Ground Self-Defence Force (GSDF), has been making headlines in the past few months for its brave and relentless relief efforts in the ...