SAGA--A landowners association has decided to sell property next to Saga Airport here, clearing the way for a controversial new Ground Self-Defense Force base for Osprey tilt-rotor transport aircraft.

FUKUSHIMA--Three men dismissed from the Ground Self-Defense Force for alleged indecent assault against a female colleague pleaded innocent to the charges at their first trial hearing at the district ...

The Defense Ministry has announced that the upgraded Type-12 surface-to-ship guided missile system will be deployed at the city of Kumamoto's Camp Kengun this month.

The building housing the Tokyo High Court is seen in this Jan. 16, 2015 file photo. (Mainichi) The Tokyo High Court on Jan. 31 set aside a lower court decision dismissing a Ground Self-Defense Force ...

The Japanese Self-Defence Force (SDF), and in particular the Ground Self-Defence Force (GSDF), has been making headlines in the past few months for its brave and relentless relief efforts in the ...

Bullet and commuter trains were suspended for around three hours Tuesday as personnel from the Ground Self-Defense Force detonated a wartime antiaircraft shell found at a northern Tokyo construction ...

A Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) member was protecting a comrade when he was fatally struck by a rock from the Jan. 23 eruptions on Mount Kusatsu-Shirane's Motoshirane peak, a source close to the ...

The Guyana Sports Development Foundation, Incorporated, (GSDF) a non-profit organization based in Florida, United States of America has appointed Lawrence ‘Sparrow’ Griffith as the GSDF Representative ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan — Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Maj. Gen. Elbert N. Perkins. Only MacArthur has been commanding general of U.S. Army Japan longer than Perkins, who is slated to retire Monday following a 35 ...

About 900 members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force started a two-week decontamination operation in Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday. The GSDF forces are helping in Iitate, which is located ...

The Japanese government has announced plans to deploy Ground Self-Defense Force members to help in the decontamination of areas inside the 20-km exclusion zone around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi ...