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

The government intends to develop facilities to deploy surface-to-air guided missile units on Yonaguni Island in Okinawa ...

Yonaguni Island is located at Japan’s westernmost point and is close ... The ministry is currently trying to acquire land adjacent to the camp for the deployment of the GSDF’s Type 03 medium-range ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a Wednesday press conference on Yonaguni Island, Japan Defense Minister Gen Nakatani stated that his two day visit to the islands of Ishigaki, Yonaguni, Taketomi and Hateruma Island ...

Still reeling from Hurricane Ida's damage, locals fear a development could worsen future flooding and trap residents on the ...

Land degradation – a phenomenon most associated with dry regions of Africa and Central Asia – is also occurring in tropical island nations. When land degrades, soil loses its productivity, ...