Chinese government ships navigated near Japan's Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea almost every day last year. Japanese authorities confirmed that Chinese vessels seen in the latter part of the ...

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

Early on Feb. 6, two Chinese Coast Guard ships entered Japanese territorial waters off the coast of the Senkaku Islands and came within a few hundred meters of a Japanese fishing boat.

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 ...

Japanese forces have not used the islands for exercises. After Okinawa reverted to Japanese control in May 1972, the US "took an ambiguous stance on the Senkaku Islands that has created enormous ...

Experts have dismissed Japan's sovereignty claims over the Diaoyu Islands as unfounded, urging both Japan and China to shelve ...

Japan controls the Senkaku Islands. China and Taiwan claim them. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory, in terms of history and international law.

The China Coast Guard (CCG) also set a record for the number of vessels operating in the waters around the Japanese-controlled but Chinese-claimed islands, which are known as the Senkaku Islands ...

Japan's Minister of Territorial Affairs, Manabu Sakai, emphasized the importance of territorial preservation by visiting a roundabout introducing Japan's ...

China studies expert and University of Tokyo Professor Dr. Shin Kawashima is calling for stronger cooperation among ...

China is seen to test its actions in the West Philippine Sea by "experimenting" with the Trump administration’s ...