About 45,000 Japanese troops and 12,000 American service members are participating in the biennial Keen Sword 27.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A remote Japanese island inadvertently found itself in the crosshairs of China-Taiwan tensions. Less than 100 miles from Taiwan's ...

Tokyo has made repeated attempts to advance negotiations on the territorial issue with Russia by leveraging economic ...

Swoop over the westernmost tip of Japan to the rugged shores of Yonaguni Island. The drone captures the dramatic limestone ...

TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s deputy prime minister says tensions over an island dispute with China have been fanned by activists, but have not hurt official relations between the countries. Deputy Prime ...

An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but experts say it may not last very long. The unnamed undersea volcano, located about 1 ...

In the afternoon of Aug. 4, 2022, hours after Maja saw the great splashes in the sea off Yonaguni, then Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi confirmed that it was one of the ballistic missiles ...

Then-Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide attends the 9th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM9), held in the form of a videoconference, July 2, 2021. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan ...

Japan and Russia are locked in one of the most enduring territorial disputes of the postwar era, which has prevented the formal conclusion of World War II between the two nations. At the heart of this ...

Vending machines are disappearing from Japan's remote communities as population declines and higher operating costs undermine ...

India, Oct. 19 -- Japanese and US troops on Monday kicked off one of their largest joint exercises focusing on the defence of Japan's southwestern islands and showcasing advanced weapons systems in ...