Two Chinese government ships entered Japan's territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea early on ...

By Daphne Psaledakis and John Geddie WASHINGTON/TOKYO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The United States has for the first time criticised ...

China-Japan relations have plunged to a new low after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned that a Chinese move ...

China's Coast Guard said on Tuesday that a Japanese fishing vessel had illegally entered the waters of the Diaoyu Islands - ...

Last month Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister, said that an invasion of Taiwan could cross the threshold that requires a ...

China–Japan tensions have intensified after Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan triggered diplomatic, economic and military ...

In the face of increasing Chinese incursions into its territorial waters and airspace over the past year, the defence of offshore islands in Japan’s southwest has become a pressing issue for both ...

Since the Nixon administration, the United States has taken the position that territorial sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands was to be decided by the parties involved — Japan, China and Taiwan. From ...

Tokyo, Aug 6 (efe_epa).Tokyo, Aug 6 (efe_epa). — Japan lodged a protest Saturday against China after detecting more than 200 Chinese vessels in the waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands, the ...

The Japanese policy debate on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands is heating up. China’s Coast Guard Law, passed in January, stimulated nationalist reactions in Japan. Hinting at the possibility of using the ...

First, during the meetings, it became apparent that at least some media outlets in the West haven’t been sufficiently clear about current Japanese policy. Tokyo’s longstanding position has been that ...

The primary security challenge for Japan today is China’s behavior over the disputed Senkaku Islands (known in China as the Diaoyu Islands). In the fall of 1968, the United Nations Economic Commission ...