The Latest Breaking News from Defense Ministry

A memorial service for fallen members of the Self-Defense Forces was held at the Defense Ministry, attended by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada.

The government is poised to create a special category in the budget to develop public infrastructure such as air and sea ports for defense purposes, according to government sources.

16 C-295 aircraft are scheduled to be delivered between September 2023 and August 2025 in flyaway condition, while the remaining 40 aircraft will be manufactured at the Vadodara facility. Read on for details:

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has instructed government ministries and agencies to consider a new framework under which budgets related to public infrastructure and research projects would be counted in the nation's defense-related expenditures.

A former Ground Self-Defense member received apologies from four servicemen who had sexually abused her while she was serving in the GSDF, the woman said Monday.

A former Japanese soldier who suffered sexual harassment while serving in the army says she has accepted apologies from four servicemen in a groundbreaking case that prompted a Defense Ministry-wide investigation into growing reports of assaults in the military

Brazil's federal audit court (TCU) asked the Defense Ministry on Tuesday to provide its report on Brazil's electronic voting machines used during this month's election, which President Jair Bolsonaro has attacked baselessly as vulnerable to fraud.

Israel's Defense Ministry said Sunday that it had reached a settlement to compensate the family of a Palestinian-American man who died earlier this year after he was detained by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. The settlement marks a rare case of compensation in a Palestinian claim against alleged…

Iranian state media said Tuesday the government has launched a space tug capable of shifting satellites between orbits. State TV said the Saman test spacecraft was built by the country’s Space Research Center and launched Monday by the Defense Ministry. Hassan Salarieh, chief of the Iranian Republic's space agency, told…

Türkiye struck 23 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in an air raid some 140 kilometers into northern Iraq, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday. It said all the group had been "neutralized", which typically means killed. Türkiye regularly carries out cross-border air strikes, often with armed drones, in…

TAIPEI, Taiwan — As the Senate contemplates sending large sums of security assistance to Taiwan, independent defense analysts here are urging U.S. lawmakers to maximize their leverage at a sensitive time in cross-strait relations.