The Japanese government has announced a plan to evacuate residents from Okinawa Prefecture's Sakishima Islands to eight ...

Japan Thursday disclosed an evacuation plan for 120,000 residents of islands near Taiwan as it announced an evacuation drill in fiscal 2026. The contingency plans are in case of an emergency.

The government published on Thursday an evacuation ... conflict over Taiwan in mind. The plan, which calls for evacuating 20,000 people per day over six days to Japan's main islands using Self ...

The government unveiled its plan ... evacuation plan “does not assume a particular incident,” officials within the government privately acknowledged that it was created with a potential Taiwan ...

Japan Thursday disclosed an emergency evacuation plan for 120,000 people on islands near Taiwan. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said the plan will deepen discussions on the ...

Taiwan is viewed as a possible military flashpoint that could draw the United States into conflict with China, posing serious security challenges for Japan, a key U.S. ally in Asia. On Thursday, ...

TOKYO - Japan on March 27 unveiled a plan to evacuate about 120,000 ... but all the country’s islets subject to evacuation are near Taiwan, with Yonaguni Island located only about 100km from ...

The 44-island Sakishima chain, part of Okinawa prefecture, stretches southwest of Okinawa island to within 75 miles of Taiwan. Japan in 2023 ... The latest evacuation plan would move 20,000 ...

Sakishima refers to Japan’s south-westernmost islands nearest Taiwan ... Yamaguchi prefecture. The evacuation would take place over six days, with the plan also spelling out how to secure ...