Japan Thursday disclosed an evacuation plan for 120,000 residents of islands near Taiwan as it announced an evacuation drill ...

Japan Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in a Tuesday press conference refuted reports that the improved Type 12 surface-to-ship ...

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 ...

Taiwan and Japan agreed to regulate fishing line deployment in waters near the Diaoyutai Islands. There is an overlapping area between the Diaoyutai Islands and Yaeyama Islands where Taiwanese and ...

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

The island chain, also known as the Ryukyus, stretches from Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, to within 70 miles of Taiwan. Ishigaki is approximately 150 miles east of Taiwan.

YONAGUNI, Okinawa Prefecture--This tiny island on Japan ... east of Taiwan, around which China has bolstered military activity. Worried about a conflict, Japan has made a “southwestern shift ...

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 ...

YONAGUNI, Japan — This tiny island on ... All of the buildup has cemented the island as a front line in a potential clash over Taiwan, the self-governing democratic island that China claims ...