With its laid-back seafaring culture and unique wildlife, the Yaeyama archipelago in Japan’s far southern Okinawa prefecture ...

Japan's guard says 10 of the 26 people aboard a tour boat that sank in the frigid waters of a northern national park have been confirmed dead. The search for the others is still ongoing a day after ...

TOKYO (AP) — Coast guard officials searched the office of a Japanese tour boat operator on Monday as part of a criminal investigation into suspicions that professional negligence caused the sinking of ...

A Japan Coast Guard patrol boat sprays water on a North Korean fishing boat after the vessel ignored warnings to leave the waters near Yamatotai, Japan. (Japan Coast Guard via AP) TOKYO — Japan’s ...

Australia may have a way of very cheaply and quickly expanding its submarine force, improving its defences this decade and preparing for its planned nuclear-powered boats. We might do this by buying ...

China and Japan's coast guards have given different accounts of a confrontation that occurred near a group of geopolitically sensitive islands in the East China Sea. China's Coast Guard said on ...

TOKYO, Dec. 23 -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called today for a thorough investigation into a suspected North Korean spy boat that sank off Japan's southern coast late Saturday after exchanging ...

TOKYO — A fishing boat suspected of spying for North Korea sank off southwestern Japan late Saturday after trading machine-gun fire with Japanese coast guard vessels at the end of a six-hour chase, ...

A Japanese tour boat with more than two dozen people aboard, including two kids, went missing early Saturday in the waters off the northern island of Hokkaido. The 19-ton Kazu 1 made an emergency ...

TOKYO, Japan -- Rescuers said that 10 people who were retrieved Sunday from the frigid sea and the rocky coast of a northern Japanese national park had died, a day after a tour boat with 26 aboard ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Coast guard officials searched the office of a Japanese tour boat operator on Monday as part of a criminal investigation into suspicions that professional negligence caused the sinking of ...