Four Chinese vessels sailed into territorial waters around the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea during the weekend, as the government attempts to engage with Beijing to press North Korea over its latest nuclear test. The four coast guard vessels sailed into ...
In May the two leaders agreed to take a new tack to solving the territorial dispute over four islands off Hokkaido.
A Japanese man who was questioned by authorities on Russian-held Kunashiri Island has been cleared to return home, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. The interpreter had been kept on the island, one of four off Hokkaido that are claimed by Japan, during a visit ...
Tokyo and the Kremlin will on Wednesday resume negotiations on the decades-old territorial row over Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida announced Friday. Chikahito Harada, Japan’s special representative for Japan-Russia relations, and his counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, will meet in ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin are likely to hold talks in the southeast Russian city of Sochi early next month, a diplomatic source said Tuesday. The meeting is expected to be officially agreed on Friday in Tokyo when Foreign Minister ...
South Korea on Friday rapped Japan for renewing its territorial claim over a pair of South Korea-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement criticizing Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida for making remarks repeating Japan’s claim to the ...
Former Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura has visited Moscow and passed a personal message from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to President Vladimir Putin. Komura met with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday morning and passed to him an envelope which he said contained a personal ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin agree to continue dialogue over the disputed islands off Hokkaido but can't hammer out a visit to Japan by the Russian leader.
Japan’s top government spokesman on Tuesday expressed his displeasure over a high-ranking Russian official’s Twitter posting in which he used a word for ritual suicide once practiced in Japan after Tokyo criticized the Russian prime minister’s visit to a disputed island. “I was surprised. ...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited one of the Japanese-claimed islands off Hokkaido on Saturday in a trip that has drawn fire from Tokyo. Medvedev landed on the Russian-held island of Etorofu to attend a forum for young people living there, and he left ...
The government has lodged a protest over the recent visit by Russia’s health care minister to one of the disputed islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday. Suga called Saturday’s trip by Veronika Skvortsova to Shikotan “extremely regrettable” ...
Japan’s thaw with China grows shaky as China prepares to build a large coast guard base close to the Senkaku Islands.
