Japan is enhancing its standoff defense capabilities to eliminate any enemy forces at a distance and at an early stage.

SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japan has more than 400 small, inhabited islands that are uniquely exposed to the risks of natural ...

The relatives of Japanese soldiers who died fighting U.S. forces on Attu Island, a fierce battlefield of World War II, have ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan — The van makes its way slowly but surely through the city streets ... Nissan also has a human sitting in the ...

Japan’s Ministry of Defense plans to expand a two-year-old army base on Ishigaki Island, near Taiwan, as part of efforts to ...

In August, a Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance plane briefly violated Japanese airspace off the southern main island of Kyushu, ...

The 70km Shimanami Kaido, webbed with fishing harbours, hillside citrus orchards and historic shrines, is often regarded as ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung unveiled plans to create a cat island in Jakarta, specifically on one of ...

Takamatsu runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge - parts of the skulls, he says, of an infant ...

Japan will allow people from Taiwan to list the island as their place of origin in the country's family registry instead of China, a justice ministry official said Tuesday.

Yonaguni is only 110 kilometers (68 miles) east of Taiwan, around which China has bolstered military activity. Worried about a conflict, Japan has made a “southwestern shift” in its military posture ...