The Ryukyu Islands are divided into three major island groups: Okinawa Islands, the Miyako Islands, and the Yaeyama Islands. Photograph by Ippei Naoi, Getty Images As the legend goes, Japan’s Ryukyu ...
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'Locking radar': China's Liaoning aircraft carrier just sent Japan a chilling message near Okinawa
China’s aircraft carrier Liaoning and three destroyers spent nearly a week operating around Japan’s southwestern islands, flying roughly 100 J-15 and helicopter sorties and even allegedly locking fire ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's defence ministry on Friday said it scrambled jet fighters to monitor Chinese air force bombers and drones flying near the country's southwestern Okinawa island and Taiwan. Two ...
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japan’s navy stayed on alert after a flotilla of Russian and Chinese warships transited a key maritime thoroughfare in the southern island chain last week, according to Japan’s ...
At the southernmost tip of Japan, Okinawa forms a coral barrier between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Expedia ...
China’s Liaoning Carrier Strike Group returned Friday to the East China Sea following a six-day patrol near Japan’s southwest region that saw Beijing fighters twice lock radar onto Japanese aircraft ...
On 9 December 2025, at Tsuiki Air Base of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), at least 16 F-2 fighter aircraft were ...
Okinawa authorities discovered a U.S.-made bomb believed to date to World War II during an airport safety survey on a ...
Xi’s invocation of tributary history is less a claim over sovereignty than it is an attack on the U.S.-Japan alliance.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun. Japan has continuously strengthened targeted military deployments in areas ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Japan's coast guard detained a Chinese fishing boat near the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on Saturday and arrested the captain for collecting coral illegally, a coast guard ...
As the legend goes, Japan’s Ryukyu Islands were created by the goddess Amamikyo, who is believed to have descended from the heavens and into the sea, just off the southern coast of what is now known ...
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