{"id":374553,"date":"2026-10-27T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=374553"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:36:12","slug":"yonaguni-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/yonaguni-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Yonaguni Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>News:<\/strong> Keen Sword 27, one of the largest joint military exercises between Japan and the US , has been conducted at Yonaguni Island near Taiwan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About Yonaguni Islands<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTjiLs4JJNfxXOYAVIMnf_4NuNRdi-zxfR5JcBJH4052OAuq5okrMl3VPCY&amp;s=10\" alt=\"Yonaguni Island\" width=\"301\" height=\"415\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: South China Morning Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> <strong>Yonaguni Island<\/strong> is part of the <strong>Yaeyama Islands <\/strong>located in the <strong>Okinawa Prefecture, Japan<\/strong>.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <strong>westernmost inhabited island of Japan<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located <strong>110 km east of Taiwan<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Strategic position:<\/strong> It lies <strong>between<\/strong> the <strong>East China Sea<\/strong> and the <strong>Philippine sea<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Highest position:<\/strong> Its highest point is <strong>Mount Urabu.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Area:<\/strong> It has an area of <strong>28.88 km\u00b2.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Strategic significance:<\/strong> It occupies a strategically important position in Japan&#8217;s <strong>south-western island chain.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It supports <strong>surveillance of surrounding maritime and aerial activity<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Keen Sword 27, one of the largest joint military exercises between Japan and the US , has been conducted at Yonaguni Island near Taiwan.\u00a0 About Yonaguni Islands Location: Yonaguni Island is part of the Yaeyama Islands located in the Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is the westernmost inhabited island of Japan.\u00a0 It is located 110&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/yonaguni-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yonaguni Islands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,11853],"class_list":["post-374553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-dd-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}