The GJ-2 unmanned aerial vehicle was observed Wednesday morning and afternoon near Japan’s southernmost islands, including Okinawa, according to a news release that day from Japan’s Joint Staff.

Less than 100 miles from Taipei, Japan's westernmost island, Yonaguni, has rapidly militarized amid growing tensions between ...

YONAGUNI, a tiny island on Japan’s western frontier, has no chain convenience stores. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead ...

This tiny island on Japan’s western frontier has no chain convenience stores. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead sharks and watch miniature horses graze ...

TOSHIMA, Kagoshima Prefecture--A magnitude-6.0 quake jolted an island chain in southern Japan where more than 200 temblors have occurred in recent days. The Dec. 9 quake off the Tokara islands ...

In August, a Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance plane briefly violated Japanese airspace off the southern main island of Kyushu, ...