In the last survey released in 1987, geographers counted islands with a coastline of 100 meters or longer on paper maps, according to the Japan Coast Guard, the author of the survey. The previous ...

Japan shares maritime borders—and territorial disputes—with potential adversaries Russia, China and North Korea.

Part 2 provides easy-to-understand explanations of how volcanoes work with illustrations and maps. It describes ... the Kirishima group on Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu "around the clock ...

Mainland Japan has never been “discovered ... The backstory regarding the Bonin islands is that on a Japanese map, the kanji characters for mujinto (uninhabited island) were misread and ...