(Mainichi/Kazuo Motohashi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese national and local tax revenues could decrease by about 7.6 trillion yen ($49.6 billion) if the income threshold for paying tax is raised as ...

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The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, is proposing a more diplomatic route to settle the sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands ... that have often raised the fear of a new invasion.

while TCWS No. 2 is issued for the rest of Babuyan Islands, Cagayan, the northern and eastern portions of Isabela, Apayao, Kalinga, the northern and eastern portions of Abra, the eastern portion of ...

The roar of the hovering Marine Corps aircraft drowns out the sound of waves breaking on the rocks around Yonaguni Island, among the most isolated locations in Japan, as the U.S. military conducts ...

The storm prompted closures and raised the risk of landslides as it approached the island. It was expected ... Taiwan Strait and heads toward southern Japan and China, where it could make landfall ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The general in charge of the Marine Corps’ Indo-Pacific field command recently visited Ishigaki island for the first time, signaling U.S. resolve to defend Japan as it ...

Typhoon “Leon” (international name: Kong-Rey) further intensified as it moved over the Philippine sea, the state weather bureau said on Wednesday. Typhoon “Leon” further intensified as it moved over ...

We spent the next year and a half traveling through Mexico, before arriving in the fall of 2023 on Ōmishima Island in Japan's Ehime Prefecture. We bought two abandoned "akiya" houses for a total ...

The long arm of a construction crane soars above the thick jungle on subtropical Ishigaki Island where Japan, which embraced pacifism 80 years ago, is preparing for a war it hopes never begins.

It was over two decades ago when Yuki Matsuoka first set foot on Tokunoshima, a subtropical island that rises gently from the cerulean waters of the East China Sea. Located 800 miles southwest of ...