Type 03 Chu-SAM surface-to-air missiles are set to be deployed on Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni, 110 kilometers (68 ...

Japan's defense minister says his country will deploy surface-to-air missiles on its Yonaguni Island. The island sits just over 100 kilometers east of Taiwan.

Hidden beneath the waters surrounding Japan’s Yonaguni island are the towering ruins of a 10,000-year-old city built by a lost civilisation. That is, at least, what many experts think.

U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self Defense will join for a bilateral exercise on Japan’s southwest islands, Japanese ...

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

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 ...

If China were to station PLA forces on Taiwan, its military would be only 110 kilometers from Yonaguni Island, the westernmost point of Japan. Such an outcome would render it far more difficult ...

The shelter plan came into being after the Ground SDF set up bases from 2016 in the islands of Yonaguni, Miyako and Ishigaki. The government plan won plaudits from Ken Jimbo, a professor of ...

On the island, Yonaguni Mayor Kenichi Itokazu welcomed ... used the civilian Yonaguni Airport since Okinawa's reversion to Japan. Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki commented that it was "extremely ...

Itsunori Onodera has spent the week bolstering Japan’s defenses, but was not helped by his colleagues.