The estimated cost of equipping the Air Self-Defense Force’s F-15 fighter jets with “standoff missiles” capable of hitting enemy bases has surged to more than 1 trillion yen ($6.7 billion), sources ...

ASDF jets scrambled on 35 occasions against Russian aircraft in June. China in recent years has traditionally been the target for most scrambles because of its maritime advances in the region, which ...

The sole pilot on board ejected from the aircraft and was taken to a hospital after being rescued by an ASDF helicopter. The pilot is not injured. "We sincerely apologize for causing concern to the ...

Jane Anlauf thought she was helping a worthy cause. When an organization called the Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation (ASDF) called the 81-year-old Minnetonka woman in May, she agreed to solicit ...

TOKYO, August 01, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, today announced that the Japan Ministry of Defense’s Air Self-Defense Force ...

Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) Chief of Staff Shunji Izutsu offers his view on the renaming of the ASDF on Dec. 20, 2022. (Mainichi/Toshiaki Uchihashi) TOKYO -- A top Japan Air Self-Defense Force ...

An Air Self-Defense Force aircraft strayed off a runway and came to a halt at Niigata Airport at around 11:50 a.m. Friday. None of the five crew members aboard the U-125A search and rescue aircraft ...

A Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel conducts a search on the morning of Feb. 1, 2022, following the disappearance of the F-15 fighter over the Sea of Japan in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun ...

TOKYO, Aug 7, (Xinhua): A Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) F2 fighter jet crashed on Thursday off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern Japan during a training exercise, with the lone pilot ...