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 first F-35B Lightning II landed on Japanese big-deck JS Kaga (DDH-184) on Sunday off California. Meanwhile, the U.S Navy ...

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 ...

Part 2 provides easy-to-understand explanations of how volcanoes work with illustrations and maps. It describes ... the Kirishima group on Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu "around the clock ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...