An eight-hour passenger boat from Taiwan to the Japanese island of Ishigaki is great for travelers, but could make trouble ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A remote Japanese island inadvertently found itself in the crosshairs of China-Taiwan tensions. Less than 100 miles from Taiwan's ...

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Japan's best islands: Japan has more than 6,000 islands. Here are 10 of our favorites, starting with Honshu, home to Tokyo (pictured).

As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines. Sitting just 68 miles east ...