Naohisa Hanzawa It was an unexpected, yet intriguing, move. At the last minute, the United States Department of Defense cancelled the invitation for the...
James E. Auer Must Futenma—the United States Marine Corps airfield in Okinawa—remain open even if the heliport addition near Henoko is finally...
The Sankei Shimbun The Japan Coast Guard has been engaged in gathering topographic data on the sea floor in the vicinity of...
A new study indicates that the so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is 16 times bigger than previous estimates. This swirling collection of trash between...
Japan’s new Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) stood up on March 27, with a ceremony taking place April 7 to formally activate them. This is...
What do these people have in common? Citizens of three small villages in the eastern part of Nago City Military pilots based in Japan...
President Donal Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Defense Secretary James Mattis have all visited Tokyo to reassure Japan of America’s support as China and...
A famous cherry blossom at Yoshino-yama in 2017 Despite a rare snowfall in Tokyo in late January, weather forecasts have begun for Japan’s cherry blossom...
In an election that will have historic implications for the realignment of United States facilities in Okinawa, Taketoyo Toguchi, a five-term city assembly member, defeated...
Despite the brief hiatus in tensions between Japan and China over the Senkakus—islands historically owned and administered by Japan but in recent decades claimed by...
The Izumo, a Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force’s helicopter carrier, sets sail from Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Monday, May 1, 2017 to escort a U.S. supply ship....
Photo : Japan Coast Guard’s vessel crashes with a Chinese vessel at Senkaku. Provided by Hitoshi Nakama, Ishigaki city council member Many foreign journalists often...
