An elderly couple from this southwest Japan city has donated a high-tech ambulance to the city's fire department to ...

HYUGA, Miyazaki -- Delicate blue-purple nemophila flowers, also known as "baby blue eyes," are at their best at a park in ...

KIKUYO, Kumamoto -- The increasing military use of a civilian airport in southwest Japan, thought to be for contingency drills with China in mind, is sparking local concern. In 2024, U.S. military ...

Japan formally activated on Sunday a new joint maritime transport unit geared towards improving troop deployment capabilities in Japan’s southwest islands. The Maritime Transport Group of the ...

Naval Air Facility Atsugi, an hour southwest of Tokyo, recently welcomed spring and 62,000 visitors for a daylong celebration ...

With 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Japan is ideal for those who like to explore the historical and environmental aspects of ...

In a survey of prefectural residents by The Asahi Shimbun in 1971, a year before Okinawa reverted to Japan, 56 percent ... “But the SDF’s pivot to the southwest has begun to expose its ...

The violent deportation of migrants is not new, and New Zealand forces had a hand in such a regime after World War II.

“It also means expanding access to key terrain in the first island chain such as Japan’s southwest islands and, certainly, it means exercising together at those critical locations,” said ...

Survivors included the helicopter's pilot, Hiroshi Hamada, 66; mechanic Kazuto Yoshitake; and 28-year-old nurse Sakura Kunitake. All three were found in the ocean holding onto inflatable ...

The previous day, Katsumi Kusada, 81, and his wife Yaeko, 77, traveled with an Expo tour group from Hiroshima, in Japan’s southwest, to Osaka. But rather than attend the opening day ceremonies ...