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

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 ...

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 ...

A Chinese frigate was spotted passing through the contiguous zone around the disputed Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, the government announced on July 4. This was the fourth time since June ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

TASS/. Four patrol ships of China’s Coast Guard have entered a zone, considered its maritime territory by Japan, near the disputed Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands in the East China Sea, Kyodo reported.

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 ...