ISHIGAKI, Japan, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Hitoshi Nakama, 76, sees himself as a frontline defender of Japan's claims to disputed ...

About 50 Taiwanese vessels entered disputed waters near a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea Tuesday, which remains at the center of a territorial controversy involving Japan, China ...

By Colleen Howe BEIJING, Jan 30 (Reuters) - China's coast guard patrolled Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea ...

BEIJING, Jan 30 (Reuters) - China's Coast Guard organised 134 patrols and deployed 550,000 vessels and 6,000 aircraft around ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has protested to Moscow over the detention of a Japanese man visiting one of the disputed islands between the two countries. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday, ...

Boats carrying around 20 members of a Japanese nationalist group returned to port on Sunday after approaching tiny islands in the East China Sea that are at the center of a dispute between Japan and ...

China and Japan's coast guards have given different accounts of a confrontation that occurred near a group of geopolitically sensitive islands in the East China Sea. China's Coast Guard said on ...

The Chinese – Japanese dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands has the potential to fundamentally transform international politics in Asia. A diplomatic crisis has erupted after a series of incidents ...

After a mysterious absences and unanswered questions about his health, we now know that Chinese vice president Xi Jinping is at least feeling well enough to get involved in his country's ongoing ...

Abe said Japan had told Russia the deployment "is deplorable" and "is contradictory to Japan's position" on the issue. Japan has told Russia the deployment of missiles on disputed islands in the ...

Some Japanese officials have been discreetly urging fisherman and local politician Hitoshi Nakama, and his peers, to steer ...