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 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 ...

China-Taiwan tensions are escalating, and Japan is preparing for the worst by unveiling an emergency evacuation plan for 120,000 residents on islands near Taiwan. The plan aims to protect residents ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exactly what that emergency might be was left unspecified in the plan but it envisages the evacuation of around 120,000 people in five Japanese islets close to Taiwan. Japan’s Yonaguni island lies far ...

With tensions between China and Taiwan escalating, the Japanese government ... before heading to other evacuation destinations. The government says the plan is not aimed at any particular scenario ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Japanese government on Thursday announced a plan to evacuate 120,000 people from Okinawa's southern islands in the event of an emergency. The plan calls for the evacuation ...

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 ...