Coast guard rescuers pulled all 21 people out of the water, but a 17-year-old female student and the captain of Fukutsu were later pronounced dead, officials said. Two people were injured but their ...

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa — U.S. Marines and their Japanese counterparts have kicked off a series of amphibious exercises aimed at strengthening island defense amid increasing regional tensions. Monday’s ...

Late last year, a group of junior high and high school students from Okinawa Prefecture visited the city of Nemuro, Hokkaido, to learn firsthand about issues related to disputed islands off Hokkaido ...

Uketsu appeared in person — though fully masked as usual — at the Billboard Japan Book Charts awards ceremony held on Dec. 16 By Billboard Japan Strange Maps, the latest work by the enigmatic ...

Japan's government has asked permission for a survey to be conducted on an island in the Pacific Ocean to choose a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. The ...

Journey through Japan’s Seto Inland Sea aboard a floating ryokan, where tranquil waters conceal treacherous tides and a past shaped by pirates.

Tokyo, Feb. 25 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has said the government is considering deploying an air defense missile unit on Yonaguni Island in the southernmost prefecture ...

The U.S. Department of Defense has said that it would not return the site of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in Okinawa Prefecture to the Japanese side unless a long runway is secured at a ...

TOKYO: Japan's government plans to deploy surface-to-air missiles on one of its remote western islands near Taiwan by March 2031, the country's defence minister said on Tuesday (Feb 24). It is the ...

Tokyo, March 3 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government is considering Minamitorishima, a remote Tokyo island in the Pacific, as a possible site for the final disposal of highly radioactive waste from ...

Tomoko Kobayashi reopened her inn in northeastern Fukushima to bring a sense of normal life back to her deserted hometown five years after the nuclear disaster.

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