HIROSHIMA — Seaplanes used to be a common form of transportation in the Japanese archipelago, with scheduled cargo and passenger flights operating mainly in western Japan until the mid-1960s. The ...

Japan’s only seaplane operator based in Hiroshima is considering launching a new flight service for tourists next spring, linking western Japan areas that face the Sea of Japan and the Seto Inland Sea ...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan – The deputy commander of Air Force Special Operations Command made a quick trip to this base near Hiroshima on Tuesday to learn more about Japan’s ShinMaywa US ...

Tokyo [Japan], Jan 13 (ANI): Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force (MSDF) has deployed its ships and seaplanes in waters near the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Korean Peninsula in an attempt to ...

February 15, 2014: Suddenly India is buying 15 US-2 seaplanes from Japan. Discussions over this sale have been going on since 2011. The growing tension with China has made India eager to increase ties ...

NEW DELHI: The Japanese Navy will showcase before the Indian Navy a seaplane and its operations during the ongoing trilateral Malabar maritime exercise, also involving the US Navy, off Nagasaki’s Port ...

China has done it again. Over the past year it came out with a homemade aircraft carrier, a fighter jet that’s on a level with the world’s best and its own mid-sized civilian aircraft. The country ...

Mumbai, Dec 10 (PTI) Preparing to boost air connectivity to remote and unconnected destinations, Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari requested Japanese firm Setouchi to manufacture seaplanes in the ...

Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari de-bords from a seaplane at Mumbai's Girgaum Chowpatty. Image Source: IANS Preparing to boost air connectivity to remote and unconnected destinations, Union ...