In early April, a ship sailed out from Yokosuka port bearing what might be the future of naval warfare. Mounted on the deck ...

Japan has shown off a railgun it would use to shoot down hypersonic missiles. The weapon fires projectiles at 2,500 meters ...

Japan has released images of its shipboard electromagnetic (EM) railgun, which suggest that the weapon system will soon ...

Researchers at these centres hope that the radionuclide will be useful in radiotherapy treatments — one of the three key weapons in ... after the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear disaster.

Both the United States and Great Britain tested biological weapons during World War II, but for ethical reasons such tests were limited to animal subjects. Japanese medical officer Shiro Ishii had ...

Masako Kudo, an official of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, smiles as she speaks to media members at its Tokyo office in Tokyo, Friday ...

Japan will not attend a U.N. conference on the treaty banning nuclear weapons, a top government official in Tokyo said Monday, noting U.S. nuclear deterrence is crucial to the country's security ...

TASS/. Moscow will take resolute countermeasures, if Tokyo provides lethal weapons for the Ukrainian military, Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Andrey Nastasyin has said "In case Japanese ...

Pope Francis’ message to Japan transcended religion; it spoke to the very heart of humanity. His calls for nuclear ...