Soon the young Nambu would be promoted to major and tasked with developing a semi-automatic pistol for the Japanese military. A first prototype locked-breech, recoil-operated pistol chambered in ...

Though the air attack inflicted heavy losses, the Japanese military did not advance to the ... Their answer....they know that almost every home had guns and the Americans knew how to use them." ...

March 16 (Reuters) - As Tokyo spins up its defence industry for the country's largest military expansion since World War Two, it has run into a challenge: some of Japan's best-known brands are ...

Japan is facing immense challenges in its rush to build a more formidable military. To understand why, consider the Noshiro, a newly commissioned navy frigate equipped with anti-ship missiles and ...