Manalo said the BRP Teresa Magbanua, the biggest ship of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), merely heaved its anchor with the intent of loitering around Escoda (Sabina) Shoal when it was rammed by ...

No injuries were reported, and Mr. Ishiba was away from Tokyo in southern Japan on Saturday. The episode is the latest in a series of violent acts targeting officials in Japan, a country known as ...

In an X post on Sunday, Jay Tarriela, a spokesperson for the Philippines' Coast Guard, said the BRP Teresa Magbanua, one of the newest and largest patrol vessels deployed by the Philippine Coast ...

Multi-role response vessels BRP Cabra, BRP Suluan and BRP Teresa Magbanua are transporting relief supplies to calamity victims in Bicol, the PCG said. Cabra left the Port Area in Manila on ...

A September standoff saw the Philippines back down from keeping its coast guard ship, the Teresa Magbanua ... along with Japan and South Korea, in the event of a war on the self-governing island ...

With hot wars raging in the Middle East and Europe, a possible third simmering away in the ­Taiwan Strait, a new cold war ...

The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...

Japan, stuck in a liquidity trap, faced a particularly deep economic crisis between 1991 and 2001. The country was actually experiencing a liquidity trap: It seemed like everything Japan’s ...

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

The Japanese car making giant has not yet said where in its global operations the job cuts will be made. One of Japan's most popular tourist attractions is once again donning its famed snowcap.

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...