Credit: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Faced with China’s rapid military rise, security tensions are growing in Japan, especially in the Nansei Islands, the southwestern chain that includes ...

Sado Island, Japan, is inhabited by seven species of snakes, the largest number in any isolated island in Japan, except for ...

The reason why so many tree species can coexist in species-rich forests has long been a subject of debate in ecology. This ...

China is ramping up its military actions and raising tensions in the Nansei Islands. Japan is bolstering its presence in response. Locals are caught in the middle. The country has become an ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

To prevent American warships from entering the area, China stationed 18 destroyers and frigates east of the "first island chain," which stretches from the Philippines to Japan's Nansei Islands ...

The experts also said quakes with a magnitude of around 8 could occur in Hyuganada as well as around the southwestern Nansei Islands including Yonagunijima. “Data available for these sea areas ...

The number of SDF personnel stationed in Okinawa Prefecture exceeded 7,000 in 2016, when the first defense outpost in the Nansei Islands opened in Yonagunijima, Japan’s westernmost island just ...

“This Vancouver Island forestland fits perfectly with Eastwood’s interest and experience in sustainable forest management and climate change mitigation, balancing forest conservation with the ...

Chapter XII of Segment I of the Establishments Code contains provisions on government officers’ leave. A government officer applying for overseas leave without completing a continuous service period ...

China has made no secret of its desire to annex Taiwan, which it may do by cutting off supplies and imposing a blockade on the self-governing island. To thwart the US military from assisting ...