Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

Pat Morita shines in an expanded role as the legendary Mr. Miyagi, but The Karate Kid Part II doesn't hold a candle to its iconic predecessor.

Since 1970, 73% of global wildlife has been lost, while the world's population has doubled to 8 billion. Research shows this ...

Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

The average temperature across Asia in 2024 was approximately 1.04°C above the 1991–2020 baseline, making it the warmest or ...

Nevertheless, the atoll is Japan’s most southerly point and enables Tokyo to claim an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covering the surrounding 400,000 sq km of ocean. Advertisement ...

The recent paper's case for green oceans in the Archaean eon starts with an observation: waters around the Japanese volcanic island of Iwo Jima have a greenish hue linked to a form of oxidized ...

Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese researchers have made a compelling case that Earth’s oceans were once ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division (USACE POD) Commanding General, Brigadier General Joseph “Clete” Goetz II, completed his week-long tour of the USACE Japan Engineer District ...

Earth’s oceans may not have always been as brilliantly blue as they are today. In fact, there may have been a time when they weren’t blue at all. According to researchers at Japan’s Nagoya ...

Seaweed, a key part of the Japanese diet and a primary food source for many fish as well as marine mammals like the manatee, is being impacted by rising water temperatures and ocean acidification ...