Japan’s Defense Ministry acknowledged it failed to meet recruitment goals for the Self-Defense Forces in recent years, as the country seeks to bolster its military amid growing threats from China, North Korea and Russia.

Australian soldiers, joined by U.S. Army artillerymen, fired their High Mobility Artillery Rocket System for the first time, marking a significant upgrade to the nation’s long-range strike capabilities.

Military training involving more than 35,000 troops from the United States, Australia and 17 other nations began with a ceremony aboard one of Australia’s largest warships.

U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers leapt over walls, clambered along pipes and shimmied up ropes in an obstacle race to kick off the inaugural Garrison Games at the foot of Japan’s Mount Fuji.

A retired Marine’s new book recounts the 1979 fire that killed 13 Marines and injured more than 70 others at a U.S. military training center near the base of Mount Fuji.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Stephen Jost outlined the transformation of U.S. Forces Japan and its evolving partnership with the Japan Self-Defense Forces in a Saturday opinion piece.

Members of a Marine Corps rotational force are on their fourth exercise in the Philippines since March, creating a near-constant presence by U.S. forces in the country.

Around 60 American airmen trekked to a hilltop to remember fallen bomber crews and Japanese citizens killed in a World War II air raid on Shizuoka.

A Japan Airlines flight bound for Osaka was delayed approximately 45 minutes after the F-16 landed around 11:30 a.m., a Tohoku Defense Bureau spokesman said. The bureau protested the landing.

Brig. Gen. James Dooghan, an Afghanistan war veteran, assumed command of U.S. Army Japan.