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Australian defense minister in Japan

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi (L) and his Australian counterpart Richard Marles (C) inspect a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 surface-to-air missile defense system at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2025.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill on Ishigaki Island

Photo taken on Sept. 17, 2025, shows the U.S. Marine Corps' missile systems -- the Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or MADIS (L and C), and the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS -- at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Ishigaki on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, deployed for the Sept. 11-25 Resolute Dragon Japan-U.S. joint exercise.

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Japan-U.S. joint drill on Ishigaki Island

Photo taken on Sept. 17, 2025, shows the U.S. Marine Corps' missile systems -- the Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or MADIS (L and C), and the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS -- at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Ishigaki on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, deployed for the Sept. 11-25 Resolute Dragon Japan-U.S. joint exercise.

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Japan defense chief in Philippines

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani meets the press during a visit to the Philippine Air Force's base in San Fernando in the province of La Union on Feb. 23, 2025. Seen in the back is the air defense radar system Japan exported to the Philippines.

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Japan defense chief in Philippines

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (front, L) is briefed about the air defense radar system Japan exported to the Philippines during a visit to the Philippine Air Force's base in San Fernando in the province of La Union on Feb. 23, 2025.

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Japan hands over air radar system to Philippines

SAN FERNANDO, Philippines, Dec. 20 Kyodo - Japan formally handed over an air surveillance radar system to the Philippines on Wednesday, the first export of a complete defense product since its long-held arms trade ban was eased in 2014. The system, which can detect approaching fighter jets and missiles, will help bolster the Southeast Asian country's defense amid China's growing aggressiveness in the South China Sea, according to Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro. Wednesday's handover of the first of the four radar systems is based on Japan's defense equipment and technology transfer deal with the Philippines in 2020. Japan had agreed to deliver four radars. (Kyodo)

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Japan hands over air radar system to Philippines

Photo taken on Dec. 20, 2023, shows a Japan-made air surveillance radar system at a former U.S. military base in San Fernando in the northern Philippine province of La Union. The system is the first export of a complete defense product since Japan's long-held arms trade ban was eased in 2014.

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Philippine defense minister Teodoro

Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro speaks during a handover ceremony on Dec. 20, 2023, for a Japan-made air surveillance radar system at a former U.S. military base in San Fernando in the northern Philippine province of La Union. The system is the first export of a complete defense product since Japan's long-held arms trade ban was eased in 2014.

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Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted.

Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted.=Date:June 12, 2023,Place:Japan

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Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted.

Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted. Joint signing appears to be in progress.=Date:June 12, 2023,Place:Japan

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Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted.

President of Boeing Japan. Mr. Will Schafer.=Date:June 12, 2023,Place:Japan

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Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted. Joint signing appears to be in progress.

Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted.=Date:June 12, 2023,Place:Japan

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Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted.

Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted.=Date:June 12, 2023,Place:Japan

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Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted.

Boeing MR and TBO (Next Generation Air Traffic System) test flights conducted.=Date:June 12, 2023,Place:Japan

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Citizens protest deployment of X-band radar system in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A group of citizens gather in front of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's Kyogamisaki camp on the Japan Sea coast in Kyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 22, 2014, to protest the formation of a U.S. Army company tasked with operating an X-band radar early warning system for missile launches.

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U.S. Army forms missile defense radar unit in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - A U.S. Army company tasked with operating an X-band radar early warning system for missile launches is inaugurated in a ceremony at the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's Kyogamisaki camp on the Japan Sea coast in Kyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 22, 2014.

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Omron develops new 3D image display device

OSAKA, Japan - Omron Corp. unveils in Osaka, western Japan, on Oct. 2, 2014, a three-dimensional image display device that can project a still 3D image in mid-air by directing LED light toward the surface of a transparent plastic plate, the first such 3D image projection system in the world.

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AWACS training flight

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an airborne warning and control system aircraft of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force at an ASDF base in Shizuoka Prefecture on June 18, 2013, as an AWACS training flight was shown to reporters.

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FPS-5 radar

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - File photo taken on Oct. 23, 2012, shows FPS-5, a ground-based radar system capable of monitoring missiles, dubbed the Gamera radar, at Air Self-Defense Force base on Shimokoshiki Island, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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FPS-5 radar

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - File photo taken on Oct. 23, 2012, shows FPS-5, a ground-based radar system capable of monitoring missiles, dubbed the Gamera radar, at Air Self-Defense Force base on Shimokoshiki Island, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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FPS-5 radar

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - File photo taken on Oct. 23, 2012, shows FPS-5, a ground-based radar system capable of monitoring missiles, dubbed the Gamera radar, at Air Self-Defense Force base on Shimokoshiki Island, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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Japan prepares for N. Korean rocket

NAHA, Japan - Photo shows an FPS-5, a radar system capable of monitoring ballistic missiles, at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 11, 2012. The installation, dubbed the Gamera radar, is being used to track a North Korean rocket. North Korea says it will launch a rocket carrying a satellite into space in five days from April 12, 2012.

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Japan prepares for N. Korean rocket

NAHA, Japan - Photo shows an FPS-5, a radar system capable of monitoring ballistic missiles, at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 11, 2012. The installation, dubbed the Gamera radar, is being used to track a North Korean rocket. North Korea says it will launch a rocket carrying a satellite into space in five days from April 12, 2012.

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Radar glitch disrupts schedules of 48 flights to, from Haneda

TOKYO, Japan - An All Nippon Airways display at Tokyo's Haneda airport notifies passengers of possible delays in flights due to a glitch in the airport's radar system on Jan. 14, 2010. The operation of Haneda's air radar system was integrated with that of Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, beginning the same day.

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JAL shares tumble to all-time low of 37 yen

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic display at a securities company in Tokyo's Yaesu business district shows the stock price of Japan Airlines dropping by the daily limit of 30 yen to 37 yen on Jan. 12, 2010. This was the lowest price for the stock since the airline integrated operations with Japan Air System in 2002.

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JAL shares tumble to all-time low of 37 yen amid possible delisting

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic display at a securities company in Tokyo's Yaesu business district shows the stock price of Japan Airlines dropping by the daily limit of 30 yen to 37 yen on Jan. 12, 2010. This was the lowest price for the stock since the airline integrated operations with Japan Air System in 2002.

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Japan begins deploying Patriot missiles ahead of rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - A radar system of an Air Self-Defense Force Patriot guided-missile fire unit leaves the Iruma Air Base in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on March 27 to move in and around Tokyo, including the Defense Ministry headquarters near the Imperial Palace.

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ASDF shows off PAC-3 missile launcher, radar at Gifu base

GIFU, Japan - This photo shows a launcher (L) for land-to-air Patriot Advanced Capability-3 ballistic missile interceptors and a radar to track incoming missiles that the Air Self-Defense Force unveiled at its Gifu Base in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, on March 12. The Gifu base is the sixth ASDF base to have the PAC-3 missile system, which may be used as a part of Japan's two-layer missile shield, installed.

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Japan shoots down mock ballistic missile in interceptor test

TOKYO, Japan - Major Gen. Hidetoshi Hirata (L), director of the Air Defense Command of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force, and Brig. Roger Mathews, commander of the U.S. 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, appear at a joint news conference at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Sept. 17, after the ASDF successfully shot down a mock ballistic missile. This is Japan's first test of a U.S.-developed land-to-air missile interception system deployed late last year, according to ASDF officials.

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U.S. Misawa Air Base unveils missile defense system to locals

AOMORI, Japan - The U.S. military invited local officials to view a U.S. antimissile defense system near the U.S. Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture on Nov. 6. The photo shows a U.S. army officer explaining the functions of a mobile information processing system known as JTAGS to about 50 invited officials from the city of Misawa and the adjoining town of Tohoku. The system was deployed at the U.S. base last month.

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World's 1st commercial hybrid-train operations begin in Japan

NAGANO, Japan - A ceremony to mark the start of operations of the world's first commercial hybrid train is held at JA Nakagomi station in Saku, Nagano Prefecture, on July 31. The electric motor-diesel engine hybrid train emits much less air pollution than non-hybrid trains because it relies on a propulsion system combining a motor powered by rechargeable batteries and a diesel engine. The batteries are charged whenever the brakes are applied.

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ASDF unveils PAC-3 missile defense system

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Air Self-Defense Force unveils the country's first ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor system at its base in Iruma, north of Tokyo, on April 13. Two PAC-3 launchers purchased from the United States and modified in Japan were deployed at the base on March 30.

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Japan starts deployment of own ballistic missile defense system

TOKYO, Japan -Japan deployed its first ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor system at its Air Self-Defense Force base north of Tokyo on March 30, marking the launch of its own ballistic missile defense initiative. The installation of two PAC-3 launchers at the Iruma base in Saitama Prefecture comes about a year earlier than initially scheduled. On the left is the conventional PAC-2 missile launcher.

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Japan starts deployment of own ballistic missile defense system

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at 5:10 a.m. on March 30 shows Japan's first ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor system deployed at the Air Self-Defense Force Iruma Base, north of Tokyo. The installation of two PAC-3 launchers comes about a year earlier than initially scheduled.

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Yamato, Nippon Yusen to form capital, business tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Miyahara (L), president of Nippon Yusen K.K. and Keiji Aritomi, president of Yamato Holdings Co., hold a joint press conference in Tokyo on May 10. They announced the two companies' business alliance to create a broad ground, sea and air transport system encompassing domestic and international markets.

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Flights suspended for 1 hour at Haneda after power failure

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers wait for the resumption of boarding procedures at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Aug. 2 after all flights in and out of the airport were suspended due to a power failure involving the air traffic control system.

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(3)Low-pressure system brings typhoon-class winds to Japan

CHIBA, Japan - Buildings stand heavily damaged in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 5 after a rapidly growing low-pressure system brought typhoon-class winds to the Japanese archipelago. from Saturday night to Sunday morning, causing blackouts, stranding a chemical tanker and paralyzing some air and land traffic. Winds of 172 kilometer per hour were recorded in Chiba, 150 kph in Yokohama and 144 kph in Tokyo.

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(2)Low-pressure system brings typhoon-class winds to Japan

TATEYAMA, Japan - A chemical tanker remains stranded off the coast of Tatayama, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 5 after rapidly growing low-pressure system brought typhoon-class winds to the Japanese archipelago, causing blackouts and paralyzing some air and land traffic.

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(1)Low-pressure system brings typhoon-class winds to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Workers try to remove the tree that fell on a train of Odakyu Line in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Dec. 5. A rapidly growing low-pressure system brought typhoon-class winds to the Japanese archipelago, causing blackouts, stranding a chemical tanker and paralyzing some air and land traffic. In Tokyo, winds of 144 kilometer per hour -- the strongest ever observed in the capital -- were recorded early in the morning.

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Uniforms the latest wave in recycling

Tokyo, Japan - Two workers remove Japan Airlines and Japan Air System buttons and logos to prevent the clothing gettin into public circulation.

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(2)JAS cancels 120 flights to check on MD-81, MD-87 engines

FUKUOKA, Japan - A notice put up at Japan Air System's (JAS) counter at Fukuoka airport on Jan. 19 tells passengers of the cancellation of its flights. JAS said it will conduct emergency checks on engines on its MD-87 and MD-81 planes following engine trouble incidents Jan. 6 and 7.

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(1)JAS cancels 120 flights to check on MD-81, MD-87 engines

OSAKA, Japan - Japan Air System (JAS)'s MD-87 planes (two at bottom) and MD-81 plane (top) are parked at Osaka airport on Jan. 19 to undergo intensive checkups. JAS canceled about 120 flights on the day to conduct emergency checks on the plane engines following engine trouble incidents on Jan. 6 and 7.

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Crack found in landing gear of another JAS MD-81

TOKUNOSHIMA, Japan - Officials check the MD-81 plane of Japan Air System (JAS) at Tokunoshima airport in Kagoshima Prefecture on Jan. 5. The left wing of the plane hit the runway when it landed at the airport on Jan. 1. JAS said Jan. 5 it has found a small crack in the landing gear of another of its MD-81 planes and that it will report the problem to manufacturer Boeing Co.

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JAL Group unveils new uniforms

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines System Corp. (JAL Group), the holding company of Japan Airlines (JAL) and Japan Air System (JAS), unveils uniforms on July 10 in Tokyo to be launched in April for 26,000 flight attendants and ground staff.

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(2)Japan's Aegis destroyer heads for Indian Ocean

SASEBO, Japan - The 7,250-ton destroyer of the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) with the advanced Aegis air defense system sails in the South China Seas for the Indian Ocean on April 10 after leaving Sasebo base in Nagasaki Prefecture as part of Japan's efforts to provide rear-area support for U.S.-led counterterrorism military operations mainly in Afghanistan.

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(1)Japan's Aegis destroyer heads for Indian Ocean

SASEBO, Japan - The Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) destroyer Kongou with the advanced Aegis air defense system sets sail from Sasebo base in Nagasaki Prefecture for the Indian Ocean on April 10 as part of Japan's efforts to provide rear-area support for U.S.-led counterterrorism military operations mainly in Afghanistan.

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Planes temporarily grounded at Japan airports

TOKYO, Japan - Airline staff are busy dealing with passengers at Tokyo's Haneda airport March 1 after flight schedules were disrupted at airports in Japan. All airplanes were temporarily grounded due to a breakdown of an air control system at the Tokyo Air Traffic Control Center earlier in the day.

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JAS plane makes emergency landing at Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - An MD-90 of Japan Air System (JAS) bound for Kumamoto makes an emergency landing at Nagoya airport Nov. 20 due to engine trouble detected shortly after takeoff. The plane carried 71 passengers and crew. Nobody was injured, airport officials said.

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JAL, JAS unify operations under holding company

TOKYO, Japan - Women work at a newly-opened JAL group counter at Tokyo's Haneda airport Oct. 2. Japan Airlines (JAL) and Japan Air System (JAS) integrated their operations the same day under a new holding company named Japan Airlines System Corp. to become the world's sixth-largest airline group in terms of passenger miles.

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(1)Panel concludes multiple errors caused near-miss of JAL planes

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (L) receives a final report on the near-miss incident between two Japan Airlines (JAL) passenger planes in January 2001 from Junzo Sato, chairman of the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission on June 12. The report concluded that air traffic control's error in giving the wrong flight numbers when asking the pilots to change course and the pilots' decision to follow air traffic control instead of the computerized Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) were two of the main causes.