TOKYO (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday released five Japanese fishing boats detained last week near Russian-controlled islands claimed by Japan, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corporation has launched the fifth Awaji-class mine countermeasures vessel (MCMV) on order for the Japan Maritime ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Japanese authorities said they are searching for several North Korean fishermen thrown into the sea off Japan’s northern coast after their boat collided with a Japanese Fisheries Agency patrol ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...