South Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned a senior Japanese diplomat to lodge a complaint over Tokyo’s dispatch of a government representative to an annual ceremony in Shimane Prefecture pressing Japan’s claim to a pair of South Korean-administered islets. Kenji Kanasugi, a minister at ...
The government is sending a high-ranking official to the ceremony this Sunday commemorating the day of Japan’s incorporation of the Takeshima islets, despite the organizer’s request for a Cabinet member. Eriko Yamatani, state minister in charge of territorial affairs, said Tuesday that Yohei Matsumoto, ...
The government plans to send a senior official to a ceremony this month commemorating the designation of two islets controlled by South Korea as Japanese territory. Yohei Matsumoto, a Cabinet Office parliamentary secretary, will take part in Takeshima Day on Feb. 22 in Matsue, ...
Japan should take its disagreements with China over the Senkaku Islands to the International Court of Justice, Jerome Cohen, a New York University law professor and expert in Chinese law, said in an interview. “I want Japan to use international law,” Cohen said, stressing ...
Beijing has launched a website asserting Chinese sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands. The website, www.diaoyudao.org.cn, was unveiled Tuesday by China’s National Marine Data and Information Service. It came as a trio of Chinese coast guard vessels made their latest patrol of the waters surrounding ...
China on Wednesday defended its decision to send Coast Guard vessels to waters near islands it disputes with Japan just weeks after the countries agreed to work toward improved relations. The decision was an “official action exercising China’s sovereign rights,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman ...
Washington has urged Tokyo and Seoul to settle their sovereignty dispute over a pair of South Korea-controlled, Japan-claimed islets, an issue that has damaged ties between the two U.S. allies. The call came in the form of a White House response to two online ...
Japan’s position that there is no territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands remains unchanged, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday. Asked if the government’s position remains unchanged that the sovereignty of the islet group in the East China Sea is not in question, despite ...
In a move that Tokyo hopes will ultimately lead to a breakthrough in a long-running territorial row, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Vladimir Putin agree to begin preparations for the Russian president to visit Japan next year.
Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori held talks Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and handed him a letter from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. In Putin’s first meeting with a prominent figure from Japan since the Ukraine crisis heated up, Mori said he indicated Tokyo’s ...
Japan told Taiwan to pipe down on its claims to the Senkaku Islands in exchange for support on keeping its U.N. seat in 1971, declassified documents show.
China's random and sporadic acts of provocations over territorial disputes seem to fail to intimidate its opponents in the Asia-Pacific region, but each push and probe tests retaliatory assets and calls into question the U.S. capacity, and will, to come to the aid of ...
