The Japanese MoD announced the selection results from separate competitions for a new rifle and pistol for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) on 6 December. The Howa5.56, designed by Howa ...
USS BONHOMME RICHARD, At Sea -- The chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) visited the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) Sept. 23, to meet ...
THE Army (PA) through its Armor Division, and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) conducted their first-ever combined ...
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) exhibited an Insitu ScanEagle UAV loaded on a Type 73 medium truck at the Fuji School on 7 July, possibly a harbinger of wider use of UAVs by Japan’s ...
In early September, the 107th Squadron conducted takeoff and landing training with the V-22 on the JMSDF destroyer Izumo, while the sister ship JS Kaga will soon start trials with the F-35B. The Japan ...
CAMP ITAMI, Japan – The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Australian Army and U.S. Army will conduct exercise Yama Sakura 89, Aug. 25-31 primarily at Camp Itami, Hyogo Prefecture and Camp Asaka, Tokyo.
The Japanese Defense Ministry claimed on Thursday that helicopters of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) were targeted by lasers in Shizuoka Prefecture on Tuesday and Wednesday. While an ...
Five Soldiers from Camp Zama and six Marines from Camp Hanson in Okinawa toured Japan Ground Self Defense Force's largest chemical unit Aug. 24 at Camp Omiya in the Saitama Prefecture, located ...
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit gathered with the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force to celebrate the start of Exercise Iron Fist 2014 during an opening ...
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) put its Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft into service on 6 November, making it the first international partner to operate the US-made platform, ...
The handover of the helicopter took place on 30 June, according to a post on the JGSDF website. JGSDF images show the helicopter during a traditional Japanese ceremony, before being towed out of the ...