The Air Self-Defense Force continued looking Wednesday for search for a search and rescue helicopter carrying four ASDF crew members that is believed to have crashed into the sea off the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, during a training flight on Tuesday afternoon. The UH-60J ...
Tokyo hosts the first Coast Guard Global Summit, where leaders from 34 countries and Hong Kong gather to discuss maritime security and marine environmental protection.
The Japan Coast Guard said it has been having success with efforts to crack down on illegal fishing by North Korean boats in Japan's exclusive economic zone. The Japan Coast Guard on Thursday released photos of its policing activities in squid-rich parts of the Sea ...
Japan Coast Guard members may be best known for their heroic rescue work after shipwrecks and other maritime accidents featured in the popular movie series "Umizaru" ("Sea Monkeys"). Offscreen, coast guard maritime traffic controllers are the unsung heroes of safe cargo transportation, and by extension, ...
Chinese ships are entering parts of Japanese territory where they have never been seen before, raising the hackles of the Japanese government. In addition to waters around the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands off Taiwan, Chinese coast guard ships have recently been spotted off Kyushu and around ...
Preliminary findings from an investigation into the deadly collision off Japan last month between the USS Fitzgerald and a cargo ship direct blame at the destroyer’s crew.
In the first confirmed entry by Chinese government vessels into the area, two Chinese coast guard ships briefly entered Japanese waters Monday off Aomori Prefecture, the Japan Coast Guard said. A patrol vessel operated by the Japan Coast Guard confirmed the entry of the two ...
Two Chinese coast guard ships briefly entered Japanese waters Saturday around two islands off Kyushu, in the first confirmed entry by Chinese government vessels into the area, the Japan Coast Guard said. Under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, vessels of every ...
The Japan Coast Guard said early Thursday it falsely issued — and later retracted — a navigation warning to vessels claiming that North Korea had launched a missile on Wednesday. The coast guard said the false warning was issued at around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday during ...
Japanese authorities have obtained a data recording device from a containership to help determine why it collided with a U.S. destroyer, killing seven American sailors. Transport safety officials said Thursday that they obtained the voyage data recorder, similar to an airplane's black box, from the ...
The first woman to head a regional Japan Coast Guard office said she hopes she can live up to people's expectations and that her sex should have no bearing on her ability to carry out her duties. "I have no time to think about gender ...
A search for seven missing U.S. sailors is called off after bodies were found aboard the badly damaged USS Fitzgerald following a collision with a Philippine-flagged container vessel.
