A shell exploded inside a tank during an exercise at a southern Japanese army training area, killing three soldiers and ...

A round detonating inside a tank turret is virtually unheard of. The last time it happened in Japan was in 1979 A turret ...

The Japanese Ground Self Defense Force has the unusual challenge of defending an archipelago of 6,852 islands that stretches over two thousand miles. Deploying powerful Type 90 and Type 11 Main Battle ...

Three members of Japan’s military were killed and another was injured when a shell exploded inside a tank during a live-fire exercise in Japan, officials said.

For all their firepower, defensive utility, and all-around menacing power on the battlefield, tanks have some debilitating weaknesses. For one thing, the maintenance and supplies required by a large ...

This Japanese tank can be seen as a medium tank, rather than a true main battle tank. It was designed with asymmetric warfare in mind. It lacks thick armor, which is present on modern main battle ...

In the early 1900s, Japan gradually began modernizing its Imperial Army to keep up with the wartime advancements of other world powers like the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. One of the major ...

The JSDF was uncommonly forward-thinking when it appreciated that a traditionally high-value asset—its main battle tanks—were expensive to maintain yet unlikely to be useable in many plausible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twelve years after an earthquake and tsunami destroyed parts of the Fukushima nuclear plant and contaminated water supplies, the ...

Japan built a large and capable armored force to counter the Soviets during the Cold War. But a rising China poses a new challenge, and Japan is changing how it designs and uses its armor. See more ...