Washington has confirmed its security treaty with Japan covers the disputed islets, but concerns remain about Trump's ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. Tensions have risen to ...

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 ...

Both China and Japan claim a group of islets in the East China Sea, which has long been a sticking point in bilateral ties. The two countries have repeatedly faced off around the uninhabited ...

The uninhabited Danjo Islands are a group of small islets also located in the East China Sea off Japan's southern Nagasaki region, and are not disputed territory. Japanese and Chinese vessels have ...

Iwaya and Manalo discussed Beijing's efforts to assert control over the South China Sea, a strategic trade route, as well as Beijing's territorial and sovereign rights claims in the East China Sea ...

The Eastern Theatre Command oversees operations around Taiwan and the East China Sea. In May, China sent a delegation of 20 military officers to Japan for the first time since the Covid-19 ...