Type 03 Chu-SAM surface-to-air missiles are set to be deployed on Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni, 110 kilometers (68 ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — At least three U.S. Navy ships and four Marine Corps Ospreys will join an annual amphibious exercise ...

U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self Defense will join for a bilateral exercise on Japan’s southwest islands, Japanese ...

Suspected Chinese spies posing as Taiwanese tourists have been arrested for allegedly taking photographs of Philippine Coast ...

Okinawa, a Japanese prefecture that covers ... China would deploy naval and Coast Guard ships to surround the island, preventing America's military intervention. The sailing in the Miyako Strait ...

Many on Okinawa had hoped that the island's return to Japan would improve the economy ... a new runway at Henoko Bay off Okinawa’s eastern coast. Opponents have cited environmental destruction ...

Data released by the Japan Coast Guard (JCG ... move came after the Japanese government nationalized the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture in 2012 by purchasing three of those islands from ...

When people think of southern Japan, the incredible island of Okinawa's white ... and only natural sand bath" is located on the south coast of Kyushu around the town of Ibusuki.

China almost daily sends coast guard vessels into waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture and frequently intrudes into Japanese territorial waters around the islands.

These islands were once controlled by the United States as part of its post–World War II occupation of Japan and only returned to Japanese administrative control with the reversion of Okinawa in ...

A heavily armed CCG fleet was also dispatched to areas near the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture ... examined data that has been released since January 2024 by the Japan Coast Guard’s11th ...