This tiny island on Japan’s western frontier has no chain convenience stores. Nature lovers can dive with hammerhead sharks and watch miniature horses graze ...

Tokyo is reportedly considering deploying long-range missiles to Kyushu, a move analyst says could deny Chinese ships access to the Pacific Tokyo's plan to deploy long-range missiles in the southwest ...

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says an unusually large number of Chinese military ships, planes and drones entered airspace and ...

Japan Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in a Tuesday press conference refuted reports that the improved Type 12 surface-to-ship missile will be deployed first with units on the main island of Kyushu, ...

Taiwan is located in the western Pacific Ocean, between the Philippines and Japan. It’s about 100 miles off the southeast coast of China, roughly the distance between Phoenix and Tucson.

For nearly a century, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan have largely avoided direct military confrontations ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Along with fulminating against the United States, China ... Indian Ocean to northern Japan, the South Pacific has lately emerged as a major area of competition between China ...

He has covered foreign policy and defense matters, especially in relation to U.S.-China ties and cross-strait relations between China and Taiwan ... in the Sea of Japan, which is known in the ...

The monitored area extends between ... the same compared with last year. Taiwan, China and Japan account for 95 percent of saury catches in the North Pacific Ocean, according to the North Pacific ...

China deployed 32 aircraft near Taiwan as part of a joint combat drill with Chinese warships and announced "live-fire exercises" in an area about ... flashpoint for a war between China and the ...

After several centuries of relative Taiwanese autonomy, if uncertain sovereign status vis-à-vis China (a subject of continuing debate between China, Taiwan, and international scholars), Japan acquired ...