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Pointing to the growing importance of drones on the battlefield, Kim said that developing different types of the weapons and “steadily increasing their combat performance” are crucial “in preparing for a war.”

The ministry said one of the Chinese military's Y-9 intelligence-gathering planes had briefly entered Japanese territory near the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.

A Chinese military aircraft's first-ever incursion into Japanese airspace i s “utterly unacceptable” and is considered a threat to Japan's safety, the

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Linda Agnes Auma (Lira District Woman MP) who doubles as the vice-chairperson of the agriculture, animal industry and fisheries committee of Parliament reported that the irrigation scheme that was established for rice plantation and aquaculture is currently not functioning well.

Japan is seeking another record-busting defense budget as China regularizes concerning military moves near Taiwan and North Korea continues its

Tropical Storm Shanshan was moving slowly south-southwest of Wakayama Prefecture on Saturday morning, bringing widespread torrential rain to a broad swath of the country, including in the Kanto and Tokai regions — with the storm's effects even felt as far away as Hokkaido.

A Chinese Navy survey ship entered Japanese territorial waters off Kagoshima Prefecture early Saturday, the Defense Ministry in Tokyo announced, just

The sailing was part of a series of recent moves by the Chinese military near Japan that Tokyo has said are “cause for concern.”

The U.S. has expressed an interest in deploying a midrange missile system to Japan for joint military exercises, the U.S. Army secretary has said, in a move that would be sure to anger China.