An Air Self-Defense Force training aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from an ASDF base in Aichi Prefecture on Wednesday, with the fate of the two people aboard not immediately clear.

In August and September, the ASDF dispatched four state-of-the-art F-35A stealth fighter jets to Australia for the first time to identify potential problems for rotational deployment. The Defense ...

The ASDF’s Second Air Wing, based in Chitose, Hokkaido, unveiled the new logo on Dec. 1 to be displayed on the vertical tail wings of its aircraft. It features a brown bear’s head, a bird’s ...