HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Elite pilot Takahiro Sato adopted a call sign based on the coastline of his hometown after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster razed the coastal area ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 39-year-old member of the Air Self-Defense Force on a charge of attempted murder after he pushed a man onto the train tracks at JR Okubo Station in Shinjuku Ward. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A T-4 training aircraft is pictured from Yukuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture, on April 4, 2025. (Mainichi/Yoshihisa Deki) A Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) T-4 training aircraft recently crashed into a ...

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 ...

A former member of the Japan Air Self-Defence Force (ASDF) has filed a lawsuit against the government and a male colleague, claiming the ASDF failed to prevent contact by the colleague who molested ...