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 ...

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 (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, ...

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 ...

Japan has imposed strict sanctions on Kawasaki Heavy Industries after confirming that the company falsified submarine engine ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...