Then Japan is the perfect destination for you ... Many of the uninhabited islands are owned by the central and local governments. But some are privately owned. Part of the controversial Senkaku ...

In the last survey released in 1987, geographers counted islands with a coastline of 100 meters or longer on paper maps, according to the Japan Coast Guard, the author of the survey. The previous ...

President Trump has complained the U.S.-Japan defense partnership is one-sided, but with China throwing its weight around, ...

With their close proximity to Japan, the Aleutian Islands seemed especially prone to an attack. Stretching westward into the Pacific Ocean, the chain of roughly 150 islands lay just 750 miles away ...

The Chinese coast guard on Monday set a record for the longest continuous presence inside territorial waters claimed by Japan ...