Camp Ishigaki, a Japan Self-Defense Force base, is on Ishigaki Island, approximately 150 miles from Taiwan’s eastern coast. (Japan Ground Self-Defense Force) ...

Japanese officials are touting a new Ground Self-Defense Force base on Ishigaki Island as a crucial final component in the country’s line of defense against China. But residents of the island ...

As a little girl during World War II, she lost her mother ... and she worries that the Ishigaki missile base will make her island a target. "That is what I fear the most," she told CBS News.

This popular tourist destination here on a remote southern island is reeling under a surge ... to declare their own state of emergency. Ishigaki logged a record 25 new COVID-19 cases on May ...

ISHIGAKI, Okinawa Prefecture--The incumbent ... plan to deploy the Ground Self-Defense Forces (GSDF) on the island, near residential areas, to bolster defense of the region. Nakayama has voiced ...