Japan
Global Firepower rank #7 of 145 路 PowerIndex 0.1876 (lower is stronger)
SIPRI puts Japan's 2025 military spending at $62.2 billion, 1.4% of GDP and up 9.7% on the year in real terms, ranking #10 in the world. It has no nuclear weapons of its own.
Alliances: US treaty ally
People and money
- Military spending
- $62.2B
- Active personnel
- 252K
- Reserves
- 56K
- Paramilitary
- 25K
Land forces
- Tanks
- 734
- Armored vehicles
- 54K
- Self-propelled artillery
- 193
- Towed artillery
- 480
- Rocket artillery
- 99
Air power
- Total aircraft
- 1,429
- Fighters
- 217
- Attack aircraft
- 47
- Helicopters
- 583
- Attack helicopters
- 118
- Tankers
- 10
- Transports
- 53
Naval forces
- Total fleet
- 158
- Aircraft carriers
- 0
- Helicopter carriers
- 4
- Submarines
- 23
- Destroyers
- 41
- Frigates
- 8
- Corvettes
- 0
Nuclear weapons
- Warheads
- 0
- Deployed warheads
- 0
Compare Japan with
Australia 路 Brazil 路 China 路 Egypt 路 France 路 Germany 路 India 路 Indonesia 路 Iran 路 Israel 路 Italy 路 North Korea 路 Pakistan 路 Poland 路 Russia 路 Saudi Arabia 路 South Korea 路 Spain 路 Taiwan 路 Turkey 路 Ukraine 路 United Kingdom 路 United States
Last updated 2026-10-27. Sources: Global Firepower 2026 (personnel, equipment counts, powerindex), SIPRI Military Expenditure 2025 (Apr 2026) (military spending, share of gdp), SIPRI Yearbook 2026: World Nuclear Forces (nuclear warheads (jan 2026)).