The Air Self-Defense Force is facing pressure to jettison its new aircraft logo amid criticisms from Ainu people indigenous to Hokkaido that it appropriates their culture. One Ainu group is ...

The Defense Ministry plans to begin deploying fighter jets to Australia on a rotational basis as early as next fiscal year for joint exercises designed to counter a possible attack Down Under, sources ...

The sole pilot on board ejected from the aircraft and was taken to a hospital after being rescued by an ASDF helicopter. The pilot is not injured. "We sincerely apologize for causing concern to the ...

TOKYO, August 01, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, today announced that the Japan Ministry of Defense’s Air Self-Defense Force ...

Jane Anlauf thought she was helping a worthy cause. When an organization called the Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation (ASDF) called the 81-year-old Minnetonka woman in May, she agreed to solicit ...

Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) Chief of Staff Shunji Izutsu offers his view on the renaming of the ASDF on Dec. 20, 2022. (Mainichi/Toshiaki Uchihashi) TOKYO -- A top Japan Air Self-Defense Force ...

TOKYO, Aug 7, (Xinhua): A Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) F2 fighter jet crashed on Thursday off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern Japan during a training exercise, with the lone pilot ...

An Air Self-Defense Force aircraft strayed off a runway and came to a halt at Niigata Airport at around 11:50 a.m. Friday. None of the five crew members aboard the U-125A search and rescue aircraft ...