At the end of August 2025, the Japan Coast Guard (JCG) released its preliminary budget request for fiscal 2026.

The 395-ton Sentinel -class vessels are "critical assets" to control, secure and defend U.S. borders and maritime approaches.

A major fire broke out aboard the USS New Orleans amphibious warship near Okinawa, Japan, prompting an emergency response from both American Navy crews and Japanese Coast Guard vessels. The incident ...

Two Chinese government ships have left Japan's territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea after ...

A Japan Coast Guard vessel conducts search and rescue operation at the site where a U.S. military aircraft MV-22 Osprey crashed into the sea off Yakushima Island, Kagoshima prefecture, western Japan ...

Japan has reportedly deployed a coast guard drone acquired from its key security ally, the United States, amid China's growing maritime presence around a disputed group of islands. The uninhabited ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

TOKYO -- Japanese rescuers were searching Thursday for a livestock ship that a survivor said sank with 42 crew members aboard during rough weather off a southern Japanese island, the coast guard said.

Japan’s coast guard and military are helping the Navy battle a blaze that broke out aboard an amphibious transport docking ship off Okinawa’s southeastern coast on Wednesday evening. “Crews are ...