Japan has recounted its islands – and discovered it has 7,000 more than it previously thought. Digital mapping by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) recently found there to be ...
U.S. security treaty ally Japan recorded intensive maneuvers by the Russian and Chinese navies in its surrounding waters in the past year, with both neighbors frequently transiting near its ...
According to geologists, the size of Japan has doubled due to a miscount of the archipelago in 1987. The Geospatial Information Authority (GIA) recently discovered that that organization miscounted ...
From afar, the Japanese archipelago appears to consist of just a few islands. Zoom in and more come into view, dotting the map like the ink splatters of a calligraphy brush. Japan has around ...
TOKYO — U.S. forces plan to dig in on Japan’s southernmost islands and in the Philippines if China invades Taiwan, according to a Japanese news agency. The deployments would happen under a plan ...
April 27 (UPI) --Japan has opposed a Chinese decision to release a land survey of the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands, after Beijing's ministry of natural resources reaffirmed Chinese claims ...
A research team at Sophia University in Tokyo has released an online "Bear Encounter AI Prediction Map" that estimates the likelihood of human-bear contact in 19 regions, aiming to reduce the ...
Japan scrambled its air force jets nearly 700 times in the past 12 months in response to suspected airspace violations by mostly Russian and Chinese military aircraft, its Defense Ministry said last ...
President Donald Trump had a phone conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shortly after speaking with Chinese President Xi Jinping.