Some of the most vicious battles in U.S. history were fought over islands that are a household name today and others that ...

It’s not just South Korea; all the U.S. allies along the first island chain are in a period of political turmoil. And China ...

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Residents’ fears are growing on Ishigakijima island in southwestern Japan that the government ... Ishigakijima, with a population of nearly 50,000, is now home to about 570 GSDF troops and ...

NAGASAKI—Hideo Kaji fondly recalls the harmony that helped to enable the most densely populated community ... as Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution. The island mining town is now ...

A quarterly survey by Japan's central bank shows business sentiment among manufacturers has improved slightly, especially in ...

By studying prehistoric rocks and fossils emerging from the side of Mount Ashibetsu in Japan, researchers have precisely ...

The couple was told that the house in Japan had been vacant for 12 years and had served as a sake brewery until the early ...

OKAYA, Japan — Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at ...

While the global population ... Pacific island nations dominated the countries with the largest losses in 2024, followed by locations in Eastern Europe. High emigration, low immigration ...

Does a genetic secret explain why a devastating form of kidney disease affects Black Americans? In the summer of 2008, with ...

Below us stretch the low islands of the Furneaux ... I spy Mount Chappell Island, distinctive for its pyramid-like hill. The island – population: two – has an airstrip. I can’t think why ...