Japan has sent shockwaves through the region by announcing an emergency evacuation plan for 120,000 residents on islands near Taiwan. The plan, revealed by Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary ...

TOKYO >> Japan’s plan to evacuate about 120,000 people from several southwestern islands in the event of an emergency in ...

The plan assumes that all rooms in hotels and inns at the evacuation destinations will ... Yonaguni Island, Japan's westernmost point, lies just about 110 kilometers from Taiwan. However, there is ...

Successive Japanese leaders have warned that ... prefecture to discuss the finer details of how an evacuation would take place if Taiwan was invaded. They explained to locals that they would ...

are located between Okinawa and Taiwan with a population of 120,000. The government of Japan has recently completed an evacuation plan in the event of a war in the region, like between China and ...

(Mainichi/Shinnosuke Kyan) The Japanese government ... Japan in the event of a Taiwan contingency, given the impact such a scenario could have on Japan. The plan is based on the nation's law ...