Beneath the coastal waters of the Japanese island of Yonaguni lies a series of mysterious rock formations. Since its discovery nearly 35 years ago, the strangely symmetrical shapes and structures ...

Type 03 Chu-SAM surface-to-air missiles are set to be deployed on Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni, 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Taiwan. Yonaguni is part of Okinawa Prefecture and the ...

Yonaguni Island lies in a seismically active region ... and what is now the ocean floor would have been dry land. If the monument is man-made, it could have been built during this period before ...

Defense Minister Nakatani Gen visited Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni in Okinawa Prefecture on January 22.He ...

While the political implications of this voyage are undoubtedly important, three significant military trends related to Yonaguni Island have long been overlooked.

Tokyo has added a 40-person electronic warfare squad on Yonaguni island and expanded its military base on the ... must be “fundamentally bolstered,” he said. Japan obtained land-based “enhanced Type ...

Japan’s defense ministry said on Monday it scrambled a fighter jet to monitor a Chinese BZK-005 military drone spotted flying between Japan’s westernmost Yonaguni island and Taiwan in the morning.