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Japanese Lt. Gen. Koichi Isobe, the vice chief of the joint staff with Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, watches as pilots start an MV-22B Osprey while a Japanese officer takes a photo of the aircraft that will take him and his fellow soldiers on a ...

Secretary-General Ban calls to increase strength of UN force in buffer zone to about 1,250 and improve its self defense equipment. 'Ongoing military activities in area may escalate tensions between Israel, Syria,' he warns Reuters Published: ...

Cpl. Jonathan R. Waldman USMC Japanese Ground Self Defense Force divers leap from a GSDF helicopter during a training exercise off the California coast last week. Troops from all three of Japan's armed services are training with the U.S. Navy and ...

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera sought the international community's understanding Saturday of debates in Japan on exercising the right to collective self-defense, saying such a move would help the country make "a more proactive and ...

"Force" actor Vidyut Jamwal, who is trained in Kalaripayattu -- a martial art form of Kerala, has reportedly designed a self-defence module for college students and working girls.A source close to him said: "He has designed an entire module on self-defence ...

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) is a step closer to deploying Northrop Grumman's AQS-24A airborne mine-hunting vehicles on its new MCH-101 helicopter platform, with the first system recently delivered by the company. Northrop ...

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft landed on Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) helicopter destroyer Hyuga (DDH 181) for the first time June 14. The landing aboard Hyuga was the culmination of extensive planning by Sailors ...

Ship-shape: A Maritime Self-Defense Force official shows off the Aegis-equipped destroyer Atago to the press at U.S. Naval Base San Diego on Monday. The ship is participating in a bilateral drill in California to practice

In response to a recent series of vicious hate crimes against LGBT New Yorkers, City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn is sponsoring an insulting series of classes in "street smarts" and self-defense. As a policy response to these ...