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MILITARY. That which belongs or relates to the army.

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The memorandum will facilitate closer relationship between Japan Self-Defense Forces and Armed Forces of the Philippines in security and defense field.

Japan,Philippines : PHILIPPINE and JAPAN bolster strategic partnership

Shin Nozawa, deputy chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Western Army, said Japan's involvement in Dawn Blitz has been a good learning opportunity, especially because ground, maritime and air forces have to work together.

U.S. military officials 'impressed' with Japan's Self-Defense Forces

Japan may not reveal details about the kind and amount of equipment to be acquired for its Self-Defense Forces in new defense guidelines defining the country's longer-term defense policy, government sources said Thursday.

Japan defense guidelines may not be clear about SDF equipment

It said the plan will see the Air Self-Defense Force Command in Fuchu,

Japan to move SDF missile command post to US airbase

An advance team of Self-Defense Forces personnel preparing for patrol aircraft operations off Somalia left Japan on Monday for Djibouti, where two P-3C surveillance planes will be based for an antipiracy mission in the Gulf of Aden.

Advance team for antipiracy aircraft operations leaves Japan

When I had first begun to cover the Self-Defense Forces, their 'tip of the spear' was generally pointed north--toward Sakhalin, the Kuriles and Siberia.

An October anniversary

The Self-Defense Forces (SDF) launched a two-day drill Friday in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture to practice the evacuation of overseas Japanese threatened by foreign conflict or political turmoil.

SDF practice evacuating overseas Japanese in Nagasaki Pref

At the same time, more than 100 senior maritime Self-Defense Force officers paid a visit to the Yasukuni war shrine in May.

Japan,Korea Republic of : JAPAN aims to develop more defense units on its remote islands

31 (BNA) - Japan on Monday confirmed its plan to dispatch a Ground Self-Defense Force engineering unit to South Sudan to join U.

Japan Confirms Plan to Send GSDF Mission to South Sudan

An Air Self-Defense Force F-4 fighter plane made an emergency landing Tuesday at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture, but neither of the two crew members was hurt, airport officials said.

ASDF F-4 fighter makes emergency landing in Okinawa, none hurt

In the mid-1990s, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) began standard training operations with Boeing-built Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft -- better known as AWACS.

In defense of the realm

In addition, 10,000 members from the Maritime Self-Defense Force viewed an awesome combined live-fire exercise demonstrating the lethality of Japan's military forces.