TOKYO (AP) — Japan adopted a new five-year ocean policy on Friday that calls for stronger maritime security, including bolstering its coast guard’s capability and cooperation with the military as ...

Japan will soon begin releasing treated radioactive water into the ocean following approval from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog for a controversial plan that comes 12 years after the Fukushima ...

In August 1945, just as World War II came to an end, the U.S. Navy encountered something deeply unsettling in the Pacific. A ...

Japan has embarked on a daring mission to explore rare earths from the deep sea, aiming to reduce its heavy reliance on China ...

Japan has adopted a new five-year ocean policy that aims to strengthen the country’s maritime security amidst increasingly assertive actions from China within regional seas. The new plan, announced ...

Japan intends to discharge over 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. Japanese officials plan to start discharging treated ...

Danity Laukon was sitting in her bedroom in her two-bedroom flat in Suva, Fiji, when she got the call. It was November 2021, and her dad, more than 1,800 miles away at her home in Majuro in the ...

Scientists in Japan discovered microscopic fossils revealing that the North Pacific Ocean was once more interconnected. The findings offer clues about ancient currents, marine life migration and ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Wednesday proposed an economic zone connecting the Indian Ocean to Africa as the country seeks to play a greater role in the African ...

FILE - Four China coast guard vessels, right, are followed by Japan coast guard ships as they intruded into Japan's territorial waters near the disputed East China Sea islands called Senkaku by Japan ...