At the time, the coast guard listed islands with a circumference of 100 metres or greater by hand on a map of Japan. Islands in lakes or river sandbanks were not included in the total.

Japan’s coast guard has held a joint exercise with counterparts from the United States and the Philippines, as the three Pacific nations beef up defense cooperation in the face of China’s expanding ma ...

In Honshu, a purpose-drawn map demarcates the numerous "disaster memorial facilities" strung out along the 500km stretch of coastline affected by The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011.