China's coast guard patrolled Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea almost daily last year, it said on Friday, ...

The U.S. and Japan have pledged to further expand joint training across Japan’s southwest region, including the first island chain, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi ...

ISHIGAKI, Japan, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Hitoshi Nakama, 76, sees himself as a frontline defender of Japan's claims to disputed ...

Russia and China have regularly dispatched forces to waters and airspace around Japanese territory.

Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth met in Washington on January 15 to ...

In March 2025, the government of Japan announced initial guidelines for how they plan to evacuate 110,000 residents and ...

A remote Japanese island inadvertently found itself in the crosshairs of China-Taiwan tensions. Less than 100 miles from Taiwan's capital, Japan's westernmost island has rapidly militarized. China's ...

Russian surveillance ship Kareliya (535) seemingly concluded a two-week surveillance mission around Japan’s southwest region ...

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 2/4, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers ...

TOKYO — The U.S. ambassador to Japan stressed Friday the importance of increased deterrence and his country’s commitment to its key ally as he visited two southwestern Japanese islands at the ...

As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines. Sitting just 68 miles east ...

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts just opened its first resort in Japan—on Okinawa's Miyako Island—and Travel + Leisure was the first in. After a decade of repeat visits to Japan, I‘ve never lost the sense of ...