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 ...

TOKYO (Bloomberg): Cockpit voice recordings released Wednesday indicate Japanese coast guard pilots wrongly thought they could enter an active runway minutes before being struck by a Japan ...

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 ...

Thursday's drill involved a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat Sagami and Taiwan's Hsun Hu No. 9 off the southern coast of Chiba, officials said, but declined to give any other details. The Taiwanese ...

The commercial plane collided with a coast guard aircraft, killing five on board. More from News All 379 passengers and crew members of a Japan Airlines flight survived a crash at Tokyo's busiest ...

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.