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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Philippine court has convicted nine Chinese fishermen of poaching and taking hundreds of endangered giant sea turtles from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. It fined each nearly $103,000 but imposed no jail term. The fishermen were arrested in May at Half ...
The Japan Coast Guard seizes the skipper of a Chinese boat for pilfering coral off the Ogasawara Islands, the ninth such arrest since October.
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 ...
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, ...
Takashi Shibazaki, 31, a fisherman based on Chichijima about 1,000 km south of Tokyo, saw a suspicious foreign boat in mid-March near the island. Shibazaki's tuna fishing boat approached the ship and came within about 10 meters before the foreign vessel started moving toward the ...
