Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A remote Japanese island inadvertently found itself in the crosshairs of China-Taiwan tensions. Less than 100 miles from Taiwan's ...

Tokyo’s fortifications to protect its southwestern islands have an added advantage: They complicate China’s freedom of ...

Once a thriving sardine fishing island, today Aoshima is home to roughly 80 cats and just a handful of people who look after ...

Extending roughly 280 miles from east to west, Japan’s Seto Inland Sea has a mild, Mediterranean-like climate and is home to more than 3,000 islands. Photograph by guntû This article was produced by ...

July 3 (UPI) --An island chain in southwest Japan was shaken by an earthquake on Thursday after over 1,000 tremors throughout two weeks. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the Tokara island chain at ...

Japan’s coast guard is monitoring a Chinese research vessel that has been conducting a survey in waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands ...

As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines. Sitting just 68 miles east ...

YONAGUNI, Japan (AP) — This tiny island on Japan’s western frontier has no convenience store. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead sharks and watch miniature horses graze on a hill. But the wooded ...

TOKYO: Japan's coast guard ordered a Chinese survey ship on Tuesday (Mar 31) to cease operations near some disputed islands, saying Tokyo had not given permission for it to conduct research there.The ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family prayed on Wednesday in Okinawa for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II that was fought on the southern Japanese island ...