As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of ...

The Ryukyu Islands are divided into three major island groups: Okinawa Islands, the Miyako Islands, and the Yaeyama Islands. Photograph by Ippei Naoi, Getty Images As the legend goes, Japan’s Ryukyu ...

Japan is quickly transforming its southernmost Ryukyu islands into a heavily fortified defense zone, sparking concern and ...

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 ...

Just south of Tokyo, the Izu Islands, a chain of nine volcanic islands that are part of Tokyo, feel worlds apart from the ...

Eugene Hoshiko / AP The number of islands in Japan is expected to more than double after 7,000 new islands it didn’t know existed were discovered. Well, kind of. The nation currently comprises 6,852 ...

A pair of People’s Liberation Army Navy frigates sailed around Japan’s southwest islands from this week, while a PLAN intelligence ship transited the Miyako Strait to enter the East China Sea on ...

An underwater volcano erupted off Japan's coast three weeks ago, giving birth to a new island. The unnamed undersea volcano, located about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of mainland Japan and a ...

Japan discovered it has 7,000 more islands than previously thought thanks to advanced survey mapping technology. The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) found 14,125 islands during its ...

Japan’s Defense Minister Nakatani Gen said last week that the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) scrambled its fighter aircraft 30 times in fiscal year 2024 in response to Chinese military drones ...

On the Shimanami Kaidō route that connects six islands via six bridges, Samatha Herbert discovers a blissful cycle that will ...