U.S. teacher, naturalized ex-student recall impact of 1968 Ogasawara reversion
When the 23-year Allied Occupation of the Ogasawara Islands ended 50 years ago, it was also a moment of closure for George Yokota, who had worked for 12 years as a teacher on Chichijima — one of the two main inhabited islands in the ...
Air service debate rekindled as Ogasawara Islands mark 50th anniversary of reversion
With the Ogasawara Islands marking the 50th anniversary on Tuesday of their return to Japan following U.S. occupation, a plan to connect the remote, subtropical islands with the Japanese mainland with air services has again come under the spotlight. Residents have long hoped for flight ...
Ogasawara islander of Western descent says her WWII lasted for decades
For 93-year-old Kyoko Ohira, a resident of Chichijima Island in the Ogasawara chain, World War II did not end in 1945. It ended in 1968, when her ethnic Japanese school friends were at last allowed to return to the remote Pacific island. Ohira, born in ...
China aiming for air control over Western Pacific, surveillance as far as Izu chain: report
In a report on its air strategy, the Chinese People's Liberation Army plans to broaden its air surveillance and attack capabilities to the Western Pacific, including the vicinity of Japan, to ensure its command of the air, it was learned Sunday. The report seen by ...
M8.5 quake rocks Ogasawara Islands, jolting Tokyo and wider Kanto
A magnitude-8.5 earthquake strikes west of the Ogasawara chain, rattling the Kanto region and causing moderate tremors in many parts of the archipelago.
The endangered short-tailed albatross is breeding in the Ogasawara Islands south of Tokyo for the first time since the end of the war. The finding on Nakodo Island, announced Thursday by the Environment Ministry, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, is ...
Chinese skipper gets suspended sentence for poaching coral off Japan
The Yokohama District Court sentenced a Chinese fishing boat captain to 18 months in prison, but suspended for five years, for poaching coral in Japanese territorial waters. Xu Yizhong, 39, was also fined ¥4 million ($33,000) for illegally collecting precious red coral last Oct. 5 ...
Chinese coral poacher in hot water after high seas pursuit by coast guard
The Japan Coast Guard seizes the skipper of a Chinese boat for pilfering coral off the Ogasawara Islands, the ninth such arrest since October.
Coast Guard aims to boost ranks by bringing back 150 former members
The Japan Coast Guard said Wednesday it hopes to bring back 150 former members in an effort to strengthen security measures in the country's territorial waters amid a recent surge in the number of Chinese coral fishing boats near the Ogasawara Islands south of ...
Two skippers of Chinese boats have been arrested on suspicion of poaching coral in Japanese waters off Kagoshima Prefecture, the Japan Coast Guard said. The arrests of the two Chinese come on the heels of a recent surge in the number of Chinese coral fishing ...
Diet set to approve tougher penalties for poaching by foreign vessels
The Diet is expected to pass bills approved Thursday by the ruling parties to raise the maximum fine to ¥30 million for poaching by foreign fishing crews in Japanese territorial waters and exclusive economic zones. Numerous ships suspected to be from China have been spotted ...
The Abe administration and ruling parties are considering raising the maximum fine for poaching by foreigners in Japanese territorial waters and exclusive economic zones to ¥30 million, government and party sources said Tuesday. The move comes as several ships, thought to be of Chinese origin, ...
