The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) will soon publish the ... The Japanese archipelago comprises four main islands, several hundred smaller populated islands and many more ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

Such a physical mismatch was simply too much for island state Japan -- with an economy about one-tenth the size of America's -- to surmount. Quantity has a quality all its own. No amount of ...

Kobe is among the biggest cities in Japan that will have a population of 1.5 million residents in 2020. The city is deemed ...

Today, the island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a popular tourist site about 9.5 miles off the coast ... Tourists ...

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper JS Ukushima (MSC-686) capsized on Monday following an engine room fire on ...

But it wasn’t just the natural beauty that drew her to this remote corner of Japan; it was something she had learned, ...

The Meteorological Agency urged people in the affected region to be on high alert for landslides, inundation of low-lying ...

With their close proximity to Japan, the Aleutian Islands seemed especially prone ... by diverting the American navy to the Aleutians, the major portion of Yamamoto's fleet could safely strike ...

The final land battle of World War II took place a mere 350 miles from the main islands of Japan. The U.S. planned that Okinawa, once captured, would serve as a staging area for an invasion of ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency is looking into the possibility of a tsunami in its country, after a volcano erupted near Indonesia ...

The move follows a Dec. 20 decision by the Bank of Japan to double the upper limit of the 10-year yield for government bonds from 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent. The interest rate for 10-year fixed ...