Japan lends itself to a multi-day guided walking trip, a rich culture with a surprising amount of wilderness to explore, ...

On a remote volcanic island south of Kyushu, Japan’s ambitious plan to build a cutting-edge military airbase has stalled. Mageshima, once a sleepy footnote of wartime history, was supposed to be ...

A Russian intelligence-gathering ship spent more than a week in waters near Japan’s southern islands, including Okinawa and Kyushu, the country’s military announced Monday. The Vishnya-class ...

Japan's media said, while the missile's longer-range version, the Block 2, is under development. According to the Japanese Defense Ministry, the island defense missile began mass production in ...

A man has been arrested and charged with kicking a rabbit to death on Okunoshima, an island off the city of Hiroshima that has become internationally renowned as Japan’s “Rabbit Island”.

TOKYO -- Chinese military vessels sailed through waters around Japan's southwestern islands 68 times in 2024, more than triple the number of such incidents in 2021, Japanese Defense Minister Gen ...

On Tuesday, coast guard officials said the buoy was spotted in July of 2023 in the waters northwest of Okinawa Prefecture's Senkaku Islands, which are located in southern Japan. They said that ...

The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end of a long period of stagnation. Source: FactSet, Bank of Japan By The New York ...

In response to these challenges, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the Government of Japan, has launched initiatives aimed at enhancing food and energy security ...

BEIJING -- China has removed a buoy it placed near the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands in July 2023, the two governments revealed Tuesday, a possible reflection of improving relations.