Responding to questions in the Japanese parliament, Shigeru Ishiba said that "the issue of ownership of the four islands is central to negotiations on a peace treaty with Russia" TOKYO ...

Featuring beech, oak, maple, and Japanese rowan trees ... Nishinoshima is a remote sanctuary and part of a group of four islands called the Oki Islands. To reach this island, set off from ...

Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit set off ...

(Kyodo) SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japan has more than 400 small ... the most populated of the four islands, and firefighters and other rescuers reportedly forced elderly people who were unwilling to ...

This length is comparable to that of Honshu, the largest of Japan’s four main islands. In 2017, the Japanese Ministry of Defense upgraded the Southwestern Composite Air Division at the Naha ...