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China's ships are getting bigger and more aggressive, and Japan is scrambling to keep up
China's massive Coast Guard and a new law expanding what it can do have worried its neighbors, mayb…
Benjamin Brimelow
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Japan's coast guard busted 11 poachers who were trying to make off with 1,500 pounds of sea cucumbers worth $20,000
The group, completely kitted out with diving gear, was nabbed by the Japanese coast guard just off …
Cheryl Teh
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A massive ship carrying 3,000 vehicles is burning off the coast Netherlands — and it's spurring concerns over fire risks from EVs
23 crew members were evacuated but 1 person died because of the blaze. The fire onboard the Fremant…
Huileng Tan
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The US relied on a secret force of Japanese-Americans to win World War II in the Pacific — while their families were locked up at home
Some 4,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Pacific during WWII, some of them volunteering from beh…
Katie Sanders
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At least 122,000 Japanese Americans were locked up in internment camps after Pearl Harbor. More than 80 years later, its legacy lingers.
The forced internment of Japanese Americans was fueled not only by fears about espionage, but also …
Yoonji Han
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A photographer at the Tokyo Olympics explains how shooting this year's games is like a different world from previous years
Getty Images photographer Ryan Pierse has been shooting the Olympics for 16 years, but this year ha…
Jackson Thompson
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At least 10 people on a Japanese tour boat that sank have been confirmed dead, officials say
The operators of the Kazu 1 previously had two accidents last year and experts said they suspect sa…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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The Coast Guard is looking, but it really seems like Japan has lost an island
China's South China Morning Post said that the island was formally named by Tokyo in 2014 as part o…
Christian Edwards,Christian Edwards
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The Nazis were already shooting at US warships months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
The US officially declared war on the Nazis on December 11, 1941, but the US Navy had already been …
Benjamin Brimelow
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How one of Japan's 'secret weapons' at Pearl Harbor ended up being the US's first prisoner of war
As Japanese planes swarmed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, a secretive naval unit — "a suicide sq…
Benjamin Brimelow
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Stunning photos show a 34,000-ton cargo ship that snapped in half off Japan's coast
The Panamanian-registered cargo ship, Crimson Polaris, ran aground at the Japanese port of Hachinoh…
Cheryl Teh
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A New Island Off The Japanese Coast Is Growing Like Crazy
The Niijima portion of the island is now larger than the original Nishino-shima, and the merged isl…
NASA Earth Observatory
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Japan's coast guard released a video showing hundreds of Chinese fishing ships near a disputed island chain
Flare-ups of this sort have occurred between Beijing and Tokyo in the past. And, despite the Hague'…
Amanda Macias
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A massive wave capsized a cargo ship loaded with 6,000 cattle off the coast of Japan, said surviving crew member
The Gulf Livestock 1, with 43 crew onboard, sent a distress signal from the East China Sea on Wedne…
Sophia Ankel
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A cruise ship carrying more than 3,700 is stuck in a Japanese port. 10 people on board just got tested positive for coronavirus.
Princess Cruises say they've given guests free WiFi and telephones to stay in touch with their fami…
Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock
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US guided-missile destroyer collides with Japanese merchant ship in the Pacific
The USS Fitzgerald, a guided-missile destroyer, has collided with a Japanese merchant vessel about …
Alex Lockie
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EXCLUSIVE: Life as a Captain of Sea Shepherd, the pirates of the sea
“We have been fired upon, rammed by ships...But I never thought of quitting.”
“I find a purpos…
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What we know about the Japan Airlines plane crash
Everyone on Japan Airlines Flight 516 survived the crash, while five Coast Guard members in the oth…
Kelsey Vlamis
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5 people were killed at Japan's busiest airport when 2 planes collided, causing a passenger jet to erupt into flames
Police say that five people onboard the Japan Coast Guard aircraft died and the captain was serious…
Grace Dean
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What it was like inside the burning Japan Airlines plane from the passengers who survived
Passengers shared what it was like to escape the crashed Japan Airlines flight. Everyone on board m…