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.

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 ...

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 the dispute and pursue joint development.

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 ...

Tensions have risen to dangerous levels between Japan and China over a small group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku by the Japanese and the Diaoyu by the Chinese.

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 ...

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 ...