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 ...

The Joint Staff Office under the Defense Ministry of Japan reported the Chinese military aircraft's movement within its air defense identification zone. The H-6 bomber and the Y-9 spy plane were ...

A map attached to the Japanese defense ministry's report showed the Il-38 circled north of Rebun Island multiple times. The aircraft later flew southwestward over the Sea of Japan, separating ...

The aircraft then continued southward and flew west of Japan's Ryukyu Islands. After reaching near Japan's island of Okinawa, the "Bear F" passed over the Miyako Strait and entered the Philippine Sea.

Earlier this month, a map showing Dokdo as Japanese territory was distributed at a travel fair in Seoul, causing ...

Unrelated clips of troops from the Japanese Self-Defence Force and naval vessels have been viewed hundreds of thousands of ...

Some of the most well-known include the Kerguelen Islands in the Indian Ocean, Spitsbergen off the coast of Norway, and ...

Contractors looking for unexploded ordnance earlier found two suspected World War-II era bombs on Miyakojima, a popular ...

Japan's iconic Mount Fuji has been silent for ... According to the volcanic hazard map from the final report of the Review Committee of Volcanic Mitigation of Mount Fuji in 2004, if the mountain ...

Photos published by the Navy prior to the announcement showed the aircraft carrier was underway in the Third Fleet area of ...

Japan’s new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, wants a more equal relationship with the US. That could spell trouble as Tokyo ...

China’s coastguard says it warned a Japanese fishing boat to leave its territorial waters near the disputed Diaoyu Islands, the latest confrontation in the area. The tiny, uninhabited islands in ...