An internal Defense Ministry document on the cost-efficiency of the massively expensive land-based Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense system that Japan had planned to deploy is now coming back ...
The land-based Aegis Ashore system was to have been the third prong in defending Japan against ballistic missiles from North Korea. However, Kono told reporters on June 15 that he had given ...
Japan plans to deploy two Aegis Ashore missile defense systems in the Yamaguchi Prefecture in the southwest of the main island of Honshu and in the Akita Prefecture by 2023, although the local ...
TOKYO, February 20. /TASS/. The upcoming deployment of US-made Aegis Ashore air defense systems in Japan cannot be regarded as a violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF ...
A concept image of Japan's Aegis System Equipped Vessels. Credit: Japanese Defense Ministry TOKYO—With the Japanese Defense Ministry awarding contracts to build two new Aegis System Equipped ...