Scrambles against Chinese military aircraft accounted for 65.9% of the total, and the number of Chinese drones detected by ...

AMAMI-OSHIMA ISLAND, Kagoshima Prefecture--In her paintings, Mirocomachiko depicts animals and plants in bold strokes and dazzling colors that are at once humorous and mysterious, yet child-like ...

In fiscal 2024, a drone was spotted off Amami-Oshima Island in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima for the first time.

The first missile site, on Amami-Oshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture, was completed in 2019, followed by one on Miyakojima island in Okinawa Prefecture in late 2019. The deployment to ...

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Japan carried out a total of 704 fighter aircraft scrambles from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, an increase from 669 in ...

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Four Chinese naval vessels were spotted transiting from the East China Sea to the Philippine Sea, the Japanese military said.

Japan's Defense Ministry says Air Self-Defense Force fighters scrambled over 700 times in response to foreign aircraft ...

A team of Japanese researchers has found that a rabbit species native to remote islands in southwestern Japan grow at a significantly slower rate and reach maturity at a much later time than other ...

It sailed the waters between Japan's islands of Amami Oshima and Yokoate-jima ... military has often deployed vessels beyond the First Island Chain. A Chinese naval task group, consisting of ...