Japan received reassurances of continued close ties with its U.S. ally including confirmation that a security treaty covers ...

Japan's defense ministry reports responding to hundreds of Chinese and Russian aerial and maritime intrusions since April.

The Japanese government formally obtains control of the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands. Japan asserts the islands were not owned by anyone prior to their occupation while China maintains it has ...

China made the latest move in its territorial confrontation with Japan by sending surveillance vessels to the disputed islands, known as Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China.

Five Diet members inspected areas around the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, drawing a rebuke from China, which also claims the uninhabited islets. “We looked at the status of ...

China has warned the Japanese air force to leave the airspace near the Senkaku Islands in a fresh case of tensions over a disputed islet territory. On February 3, the China Coast Guard began to ...

U.S. Marines and the Japanese Ground Self Defense will join for a bilateral exercise on Japan’s southwest islands, Japanese ...

Diplomatic Efforts to Manage (or Resolve) the Territorial Dispute Preventing armed conflict between Japan and China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute ultimately depends on Beijing and Tokyo ...

The United States pledged support for ally Japan in a growing dispute with China over ... which includes the tiny uninhabited islands known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.

The number of days Chinese government vessels were spotted in the contiguous zone of disputed islands ... but Chinese-claimed islands, which are known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the ...

Hagel then publicly reminded China that America’s mutual defense treaty with Japan applies to the disputed Senkaku islands. Washington’s cheeky response was to fly B-52 bombers through the ...

The new ship, an ultra-large multipurpose patrol vessel, will be around 200 meters long and will weigh about 30,000 tons. The decade-old approach is failing to gain any substantial benefit, while ...