Japan has launched a new three-year program to enhance the capabilities of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), particularly in its operation of vessels and capacity for investigating crime.

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force will launch its Indo-Pacific Deployment on April 21. A total of five ships forming four ...

Japan, Australia, and the Philippines – to Washington’s maritime capability-commitment gap reflect the future of Indo-Pacific ...

safeguarding Japan’s territorial waters and conducting rescue operations in maritime accidents. When Japan comes under an armed attack and the SDF is mobilized to defend the nation, the JCG will ...

Japan's Self-Defense Forces have held a ceremony to mark the formation of a maritime transport unit for swiftly deploying personnel and equipment to remote islands in the country's southwest and ...

Japan formally activated on Sunday a new joint maritime transport unit geared towards improving troop deployment capabilities ...

Maritime and Air Self Defense Forces under the direct oversight of the defense minister. The launch of the new unit is designed to strengthen Japan's ability to rapidly deploy troops to remote ...

File photo/Xinhua] The China Coast Guard expelled a Japanese fishing vessel that illegally entered the territorial waters of ...

Kure, Hiroshima Pref., April 6 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Defense Ministry held an inaugural ceremony for a new Self-Defense Forces unit focused on maritime transportation at the Maritime SDF's Kure ...