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 68 miles east ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over the Japanese archipelago – a string of islands that extends about 3000 km into the western Pacific Ocean. While the archipelago is made up of over 6000 ...

Japan Sea element plants are generally thought to have evolved from closely related species on the Pacific side. Camellia japonica and Camellia rusticana were also believed to follow this pattern.

Up until now, the widely accepted theory was that the elephant disappeared from the Japanese archipelago about 24,000 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world’s newest island has risen from the sea off the coast of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean. Japan’s ...

A joint research group has demonstrated that the majority of immigration to the Japanese Archipelago in the Yayoi and Kofun periods (between 3000 BCE and 538 CE) came from the Korean Peninsula. The ...

There aren't any native lion or tiger populations living in Japan today, but this was not always the case. Fossil evidence indicates that at least one species of large cat roamed the archipelago ...

TOKYOTOKYO — A major typhoon is headed toward Japan and is expected to cross over the western and central areas of the archipelago Friday and Saturday. The Japan Meteorological Agency said Typhoon ...

Key questions raised by this study are ‘What population is the source of admixture in the Ainu other than Mainland Japanese?’ and ‘Do the Ainu truly have higher genetic heterogeneity?’ Collecting more ...

The world’s newest island has risen from the sea off the coast of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean. Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) told CNN the unnamed island was formed by an ...