“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Japanese and puppet Chinese troops paraded on the third anniversary of Traitor Wang Ching-wei’s Nanking regime. To the world, Tojo was signaling the fact that island Japan had become a ...

Yasunari Miyauchi, 56, was born in Kagoshima prefecture, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu and graduated in economics at the prefecture’s university. Joining Jetro in 1991, he served in the ...

Japan is part of the First Island Chain, a U.S. maritime containment strategy that seeks to restrict the Chinese military's access to the Western Pacific Ocean. According to the U.S. Air Force ...

Japan’s national broadcaster ... in March that footage from the documentary Midori Naki Shima (The Island That Has No Green) was not filmed on location at Hashima Island and could not be ...

The island in the village of Ogasawara, Tokyo, was the site of an intense battle between Japanese and U.S. troops near the end of World War II, with the Japanese fatalities at over 20,000. After ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 8 released a statement strongly protesting the Japanese government's latest territorial claim to Dokdo Island in its Diplomatic Bluebook 2025. Under the name ...

Japan has rolled out a brand-new military unit tasked with one mission: move troops faster, farther, and more securely across its vulnerable southern islands. The Maritime Transportation ...

2025 Shun Kobayashi CC-BY-ND Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, ...

This is stated in the annual report on diplomacy of the Japanese Foreign Ministry published today, April 8, entitled "Blue Book", which reintroduced the wording about the "illegal occupation" of the ...

MOSCOW — Russia said Monday it had outlawed a Japanese group calling for the return of a disputed island chain annexed by Moscow during World War II, amid simmering tensions with Tokyo. The ...

In early April, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force closely monitored the Shandong aircraft carrier of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), which was detected sailing alongside other vessels ...