The Tokyo metropolitan government has installed oil fences in the Izu island chain to protect fishing ports from a possible deluge of drifting pumice ejected from an underwater volcano months ago.

16 swirled northward on Sept. 29 toward the Izu island chain south of Tokyo. The typhoon is expected to mainly impact the Izu islands and maintain its strength as it passes through the seas south ...

and to the west of the "second island chain," which stretches from Guam to the Izu Islands in Japan. For China, it was the biggest military drill in almost thirty years. China not only showed that ...