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Yonaguni, Okinawa Pref. – Yonaguni, Japan’s westernmost point, rises from the sea like a crown. With few sandy beaches, the island’s checkerboard coastline of green grass and black volcanic stone is ...

Swoop over the westernmost tip of Japan to the rugged shores of Yonaguni Island. The drone captures the dramatic limestone cliffs of Cape Irizaki and the wild horses grazing on emerald hillsides.

Surface-to-air missiles, which are capable of shooting down aircraft and ballistic missiles, will be located on Yonaguni, Japan’s westernmost island Japan will deploy missiles to a tiny island near ...

Japan plans to deploy surface-to-air missiles to its remote western island near Taiwan by March 2031, its defence minister said, as regional tensions simmer. It is the first time that Japan specified ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force plans to deploy surface-to-air missiles in fiscal 2030 on Yonaguni -- an island about 110 kilometers from Taiwan -- Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said in ...

Japan plans to deploy upgraded air defense missiles on its westernmost island — within sight of Taiwan — by 2031, a move that underscores Tokyo’s growing concern over regional security and tensions ...

The waters off Yonaguni Island have carried a quiet question for nearly four decades. In 1986, a local dive tour operator noticed large stone shapes on the seabed that did not sit easily with the ...

Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and missiles. As China’s dispute with Tokyo escalates, some residents are worried. Yonaguni, a Japanese military outpost about ...

As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines. Sitting just 110 kilometers ...