Yonaguni, the Japanese Island on the Front Lines of China’s Feud with Japan

Scritto il 30/12/2025
da Javier C. Hernández, Hisako Ueno and Ko Sasaki

Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and missiles. As China’s dispute with Tokyo escalates, some residents are worried.Yonaguni, a Japanese military outpost about 70 miles east of Taiwan, sits along the so-called “first island chain,” a strategic arc of islands used to hem in Chinese naval expansion.