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 ...

With its jurisdiction stretching from western mountains to remote southern islands, the capital goes way beyond the expected. Futuristic yet rooted in tradition, ordered yet chaotic, Tokyo has ...

Yes, I’m still in Tokyo. Sailing 25 hours on the Ogasawaramaru ... The backstory regarding the Bonin islands is that on a Japanese map, the kanji characters for mujinto (uninhabited island ...