The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea defines an island as a ... coastline of 100 meters or longer on paper maps, according to the Japan Coast Guard, the author of the survey.

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Japan's meteorological agency has published a map showing which parts of the country ... On Thursday, a 7.1-magnitude ...

A Japanese fighter jet fired a signal flare as a warning for the first time after a Russian military aircraft intruded the ...

Tensions have risen to dangerous levels between Japan and China over a small group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku by the Japanese and the Diaoyu by the Chinese.

The incident is the latest between China and Japan around disputed islands in the East China Sea. A China coastguard vessel sails near a Japan coastguard vessel off one of the disputed islands ...

Researcher Kazushige Usui of Kanagawa Prefecture's fisheries technology center began studying Japanese purple sea urchins when the local wild population spiked about five years ago. As the species ...

North Korea reportedly test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, which landed in the Sea of Japan, ...

France's Charles de Gaulle is also expected to carry out Exercise Pacific Steller around the waters near Guam.

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An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians ...