Off the southwest coast of Japan, a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper sank after catching fire the day before.

A People’s Liberation Army (PLAN) surface action group and an amphibious task group made separate transits through the Miyako ...

When the proposal was raised to send a Japan Coast Guard cutter to the Persian Gulf, Chief Cabinet Secretary Masaharu Gotoda opposed the move as he did the minesweeper dispatch on the grounds that ...

Junichi Yamaguchi, the chairman of the local branch of the All Japan Dockworkers’ Union ... at Ishigaki Port was in September 2023 when a minesweeper docked. That was the first time in 14 ...