YONAGUNI, Okinawa Prefecture--This tiny island on Japan’s western frontier has no convenience store. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead sharks and watch miniature horses graze on a hill.

says his group's mission is to fly P-3C aircraft over the East China Sea near Okinawa and its remote islands, including Yonaguni, and the Japanese-controlled Senkaku island, which Beijing also claims.

On July 29, the U.S. Marine Corps deployed an AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar to Japan's westernmost island, Yonaguni in Okinawa prefecture. The Japanese island lies 67 miles from the ...

A U.S. Marine Corps AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar is deployed during exercise Resolute Dragon 24 at Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Camp Yonaguni, Okinawa, Japan, July 31, 2024.

Yonaguni is part of Okinawa Prefecture and the first island chain, which stretches southward to the Philippines and which Washington considers key to hemming in Chinese forces in the event of a ...

He is believed to have drifted to the island in a canoe from the island of Yonaguni, also in Okinawa, according to officials from the 11th Regional Headquarters in Naha. The headquarters ...

says his group's mission is to fly P-3C aircraft over the East China Sea near Okinawa and its remote islands, including Yonaguni, and the Japanese-controlled Senkaku island, which Beijing also claims.