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An updated plan recently released by the Japanese government details how and where it will move 120,000 people from the ...

The government unveiled its plan to evacuate tens of thousands of people from remote islands near Taiwan in case China acts ...

Camp Ishigaki, a Japan Self-Defense Force base, is on Ishigaki Island, approximately 150 miles from Taiwan’s eastern coast. (Japan Ground Self-Defense Force) ...

The Japanese government has compiled a plan to evacuate 120,000 people from some Okinawa islands to other parts of ...

This popular tourist destination here on a remote southern island is reeling under a surge ... to declare their own state of emergency. Ishigaki logged a record 25 new COVID-19 cases on May ...

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said the plan is being drawn up to deepen discussions regarding the evacuation of island residents ... people from Ishigaki, Miyako, Taketomi ...

Ishigaki Island is located about 400km southwest of Okinawa Prefecture's main island, surrounded by a sea of coral reefs. 50,000 people live on the island. Once, many came to the island in search ...

Japanese officials are touting a new Ground Self-Defense Force base on Ishigaki Island as a crucial final component in the country’s line of defense against China. But residents of the island ...