Philippines on verge of VFA defense pact". Asia Times. 18 August 2023. "Philippines' Marcos open to a troop pact with Japan". Reuters. 13 February 2023...

The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively...

Pact, officially the Agreement against the Communist International was an anti-Communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan on...

The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF, Japanese: 自衛隊; Hepburn: Jieitai), also known as the Japanese Armed Forces, are the unified de facto military forces...

The Second Sino-Japanese War was the war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945 as part of World War II. It is...

was a military and political alliance between Italy and Germany. The pact was initially drafted as a tripartite military alliance between Japan, Italy...

U.S. military bases—and Japanese Self-Defense Force, Coast Guard, and space development facilities—in Japan. In Kanagawa Prefecture, a Chinese government–linked...

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi...

First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895) or the First China–Japan War was a conflict between the Qing dynasty and Empire of Japan primarily...

The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded the Manchuria region of the Republic of China on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden Incident...

Resurrection of the military minister's active military service system Japan-Germany Anti-Comintern Pact Shōwa 12 (1937) China Incident (Sino-Japanese War) Marco...

Marine Corps), Air Force and Military Police Force. The military is under the civilian control of the Ministry of National Defense, a cabinet-level agency...

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made...

Retrieved 2021-12-25. Higgins, Tucker (2019-06-26). "Trump questions Japan defense pact, says if US is attacked, 'they can watch on a Sony television'". CNBC...

embargo against Japan in August 1941, and China was included in the Lend-Lease Act which superseded the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1937. As the...

post-occupation U.S. military stationed in Japan under the U.S.-Japan Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty and Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) which...

and Japan in 1945, the Soviet Union became the sole superpower rival to the United States. The Cold War between the two nations led to military buildups...

Germany. The military co-operation has been discreet but mutually profitable: Israeli intelligence, for example, sent captured Warsaw Pact armor to West...

Tripartite Pact, mutual visits of political and military nature increased. After German ace and parachute expert Ernst Udet visited Japan in 1939 to inspect...

1939, and led to the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact. The Russo-Japanese War of the early 20th century resulted in a Japanese victory and the Treaty of...

States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China, India, Japan or an all out war between military alliances NATO and CSTO, or even the possibility...

Sign Military Pact With Japan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 2, 2021. Don't just delay, scrap military agreement with Japan (2012...

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and an eight-ray version is flown by the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. The rising...

collective defense treaties. These treaties and agreements were intended to create alliances that would keep communist powers in check (Communist China, in SEATO's...

GDP. Japan has renounced its right to declare war, though it maintains a Self-Defense Force that ranks as one of the world's strongest militaries. A global...

followed the conclusion of the Tripartite Pact. As Westerners increasingly fought in the Pacific Theater, the Japanese directed their prejudices towards them...

turmoil subsided. Japanese views of the United States, after years of mass protests over nuclear armaments and the mutual defense pact, improved by 1968...

northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories...

of Japan as one of its key tenets. The military had a strong influence on Japanese society from the Meiji Restoration. Almost all leaders in Japanese society...

Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan. Forming one of the military branches of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces...