The head of China's air force has blasted a Japanese Defense Ministry white paper critical of Chinese military drills in and over waters near Japan, saying "the Sea of Japan is not Japan's sea." At a military event Thursday in the city of Changchun, People's ...
Foreign Minister Taro Kono brushed aside a provocative remark by his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, during their first talks since he assumed his post last week, saying he wants Beijing to "learn how to behave as a big power." At the bilateral meeting in Manila ...
Japan's top diplomat is set to hold talks with his counterparts from the United States and China next week, aiming to strengthen efforts to tackle North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, government sources said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Taro Kono replaced Fumio Kishida in a Cabinet ...
Japan has lodged a protest with China over what it described as suspicious activity in a maritime area rich in gas deposits in the East China Sea, officials said Tuesday. The two countries have a longstanding dispute over the Japan-controlled, China-claimed Senkaku Islands in the ...
Four of six Japanese nationals detained in China in March for their suspected involvement in unspecified "illegal activities" are now back in Japan after having been released, Japan's top government spokesman said Thursday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, speaking in a daily press conference, refrained ...
Chinese ships are entering parts of Japanese territory where they have never been seen before, raising the hackles of the Japanese government. In addition to waters around the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands off Taiwan, Chinese coast guard ships have recently been spotted off Kyushu and around ...
In the first confirmed entry by Chinese government vessels into the area, two Chinese coast guard ships briefly entered Japanese waters Monday off Aomori Prefecture, the Japan Coast Guard said. A patrol vessel operated by the Japan Coast Guard confirmed the entry of the two ...
China's air force said Saturday that its warplanes had conducted long-range drills over the Bashi Channel and the Miyako Strait "several times" over the past week, just a day after the country's Defense Ministry told Japan that it should "get used to" the military ...
Two Chinese coast guard ships briefly entered Japanese waters Saturday around two islands off Kyushu, in the first confirmed entry by Chinese government vessels into the area, the Japan Coast Guard said. Under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, vessels of every ...
Hampered by years of strained diplomacy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Germany to address the military threat posed by North Korea.
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to hold phone talks with his Japanese and Chinese peers in an effort to deal with provocative North Korea.
Japan's actions at Marco Polo Bridge, and its subsequent campaign to conquer China, unleashed a maelstrom that casts a long shadow over Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to turn the page on this history.
