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 ...

China’s aircraft carrier Liaoning and three destroyers spent nearly a week operating around Japan’s southwestern islands, ...

As the legend goes, Japan’s Ryukyu Islands were created by the goddess Amamikyo, who is believed to have descended from the heavens and into the sea, just off the southern coast of what is now known ...

The Japanese defense ministry claimed on Sunday that China's Liaoning aircraft carrier formation headed northeast after ...

Experts and scholars attend an academic roundtable discussing "Ryukyu and Okinawa in the Postwar 80 Years" held at the Department of History of Peking University on December 6, 2025. Photo: Xing ...

Japan's Defense Ministry says the Maritime Self-Defense Force has been monitoring the movements of the Chinese aircraft ...

Photo/Xinhua] Japan's accelerated militarization of the southwestern islands is not a matter of routine policy adjustment ...

Japan says Chinese fighter jets aimed radar at its aircraft in a “dangerous” encounter near Okinawa, a claim China strongly ...

Japan’s Ministry of Defense data indicated that two Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers were detected near the coast of the Sea ...

Japan said on Sunday that Chinese fighter jets had directed fire-control radar at Japanese military aircraft in two ...

Japan has scrambled jets to monitor Russian and Chinese air forces conducting joint patrols around the country, the Japanese ...