A Taiwanese clade of Nidirana okinavana has been identified as a new species of music frog and named “Nidirana shyhhuangi,” a ...

Japan's new Defense Buildup Program outlines plans to establish two regiment-level battalions equipped with the High-Speed Glide Missile for Island Defense. The chosen deployment sites — Kyushu Island ...

The JMSDF has announced that it has acquired two types of unmanned underwater gliders as test examples for maritime ...

Japan is enhancing its standoff defense capabilities to eliminate any enemy forces at a distance and at an early stage.

“It is an extremely rare case as many coral are threatened to be lost,” said Nakamura, who is researching coral reefs in the sea off the Ryukyu Islands, which lie to the southwest of the main ...

Xystodesmus fasciatus, with up to 19 segments, was discovered in a Japanese cedar forest on the Satsuma peninsula and is named for its “vividly banded” body made up of alternating “pale-greyish” and ...

Tsuchiya via Unsplash Scattered across a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern Japan ... were found in highly localized regions of the Ryukyu Archipelago, such as a limestone hill or ...