Japan's Defense Ministry and lawmakers are reacting to what appears to be unauthorized drone footage of a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer ... showing a bird's-eye view of a large ship ...

The Japanese government said on April 2 that a video spreading on social media that appears to be drone footage of the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Izumo destroyer may be a “fake” video.

Japan has also introduced another large vessel type, the Maya-class missile destroyers, equipped with the AEGIS battle management system in the past few years. More of these large AEGIS-equipped ...

The Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki briefly entered Chinese territorial waters for approximately 20 minutes in July 2024. This ...

Japan's local newspaper reported on Thursday that the SDF destroyer Sazanami entered the Taiwan Strait from the East China Sea on Wednesday morning to send a message to Beijing, spending more than ...