The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) on Saturday launched the Live 118 system, which will allow its staff to receive videos of maritime incidents and accidents taken by callers and send them footage of ...

Japan's Coast Guard has been working to improve the capabilities of coast guards in ASEAN countries. It has previously provided patrol boats to help them maintain their vessels and support their ...

The Japan Coast Guard has deployed its first specialized research aircraft to survey shallow waters off the archipelago and hopefully find geographical features that can expand Japan’s territory ...

TOKYO – Cockpit voice recordings released on Dec 25 indicate Japanese coast guard pilots wrongly thought they could enter an active runway minutes before being struck by a Japan Airlines jet.

Several former pilots and air-traffic controllers have focused on an exchange between an air-traffic controller and the captain of a Japan Coast Guard plane at 5:45 p.m. on Jan. 2. That was two ...

TSU -- A 6-meter-long whale carcass was found drifting in the sea about 4 kilometers east of the lighthouse on Toga Island in Owase, Mie Prefecture, the local coast guard announced on Dec. 17.