In the last survey released in 1987, geographers counted islands with a coastline of 100 meters or longer on paper maps, according to the Japan Coast Guard, the author of the survey. The previous ...

By the sixteenth century, Marco Polo’s (1254-1324) tales of the miraculous island kingdom of Zipangu from Il Milione ... The influence of European maps on Japanese cartography, the late Sir Hugh ...

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

Part 2 provides easy-to-understand explanations of how volcanoes work with illustrations and maps. It describes ... the Kirishima group on Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu "around the clock ...

The Joint Staff Office under the Defense Ministry of Japan reported the Chinese military aircraft's movement within its air ...

but it is against “re-drawing” the post-war map. The Kuril Islands, and half of Sakhalin, were part of Japan before 1945. Also, Japan acquired through aggressive wars a number of other ...

And all of them literally could be wiped off the map. That's not ... tests on their remote islands. A hydrogen bomb 1,000 times as powerful as those dropped on Japan during World War II was ...

SEOUL--South Korea summoned Japan’s deputy ambassador on Tuesday to protest over a map on the Tokyo Olympics website that showed a set of South Korea-controlled islands as Japanese territory.

the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism started emergency magnetic surveys at Miyazaki Airport on Wednesday night, according to ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region, with the locations of 10 carriers ...

A Fortnite leak for the upcoming Chapter 6 seasonal update claims that the map will be receiving some major changes.

Japan's iconic Mount Fuji has been silent for ... According to the volcanic hazard map from the final report of the Review Committee of Volcanic Mitigation of Mount Fuji in 2004, if the mountain ...