In the last survey released in 1987, geographers counted islands with a coastline of 100 meters or longer on paper maps, according to the Japan Coast Guard, the author of the survey. The previous ...

Two of Japan's nuclear power plants were rattled on Monday when a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck southwest Japan, prompting a tsunami advisory for parts of the region. This map shows the ...

A Pokemon fan creates a map of where some early game regions would fit on the actual map of Japan and shares their handiwork ...

SHIMANE—A Japanese academic has discovered a map published in the United States in 1897 that marks Takeshima, a group of islets claimed by both Japan and South Korea, as Japanese territory.

First, he uses contour maps produced by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, upon which he overlays useful details based on his own research. This creates an abundance of information ...

Scientists have constructed local and nation-wide maps of the radioactive particles that rained down when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant failed after a massive earthquake and tsunami rocked ...