With 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Japan is ideal for those who like to explore the historical and environmental aspects of ...

China’s increased deployment of drones in the airspace around the Nansei Islands that span Kyushu and Okinawa Island is seen ...

Like many of the prolonged battles waged during the last year of World War II, the fighting on Iwo Jima resulted in the ...

Stories of how the data was collected were fascinating. Some people camped on islands for weeks. Some scaled cliffs or jumped from helicopters onto remote islands.

Coastal islands are also a valuable resource for ecologists studying how communities of plants colonise new habitats and change over time. Now, we have created a new publicly available database ...

Australia's islands punch above their weight As we collated the surveys, we realized Australia's coastal islands were punching above their weight for species diversity. Despite making up less than ...

Typhoon No. 11 is expected to approach close to the Ogasawara island chain, south of Tokyo, from the late afternoon of Aug. 29, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The agency is urging ...

Ten years after a new islet born in a massive eruption nearby swallowed it, remote Nishinoshima island in the Ogasawara island chain is still showing signs of volcanic activity. A survey from ...

TOKYO >> On an island off the coast of Nagasaki, ruins that seem on the verge of collapse stand clustered behind a high ...