A Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel observed four China Coast Guard ships in the contiguous zone just outside Japanese territorial waters off the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on ...

Chinese coast guard vessels were spotted sailing near Japan's Senkaku Islands for 355 days last year, a new record.

The China Coast Guard (CCG) also set a record for the number of vessels operating in the waters around the ...

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 ...

Chinese coast guard vessels were again spotted near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Tuesday, ...

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.

Japan controls the Senkaku Islands. China and Taiwan claim them. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan's territory, in terms of history and international law.

The Shikoku Basin is near the hotly contested Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Tiaoyutai Islands in Taiwan, which is covered under the U.S.-Japan security treaty.

EXPERTS called for stronger cooperation among like-minded nations amid expectations that China will continue its aggressive operations in the West Philippine Sea this year. They made the statement ...

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 ...

Tensions are rising all across Northeast Asia, not just in the Taiwan Strait. Beijing has been escalating claims over the Senkaku Islands (which Taiwan calls Diaoyutai, 釣魚台), Okinawa and the Russian ...