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

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 ...

In late September, a US HC-103J Super Hercules spotted four foreign vessels operating about 440 miles southwest of St.

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

urging both Japan and China to shelve the dispute and pursue joint development. "As a matter of historical fact, the islands referred to as the Senkaku Islands by Japan were originally Chinese ...

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

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.

China on Wednesday said its activities and claims over the South China Sea are legitimate and “completely justified”, reacting to the Quad Foreign Ministers’ assertions “strongly” opposing any ...

"particularly if China perceives that its attempts at deterrence of a major US intervention — say in a cross-strait Taiwan crisis or in a brewing dispute over the Senkaku Islands — have failed." ...