NEWSWORTHY
Moscow avoids confirming Abe's reported 'No U.S. base' pledge
A Kremlin spokesman has declined to confirm whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised not to allow U.S. bases to be built on Japan-claimed islands under Russian control even if they are returned to Japan, according to Russia's Tass news agency. The Japanese media have reported ...
If the Abe administration is changing the basic position on dealing with Russia, it should publicly explain and build a solid domestic consensus over its position.
The high price of a two-island deal
The most basic condition for the return of Shikotan and Habomai would be for Japan to accept that the territorial dispute has been permanently resolved.
Focus on 1956 accord may signal dawn for Japan-Russia isle row
The dispute over the islands off Hokkaido has long been a thorn in bilateral relations, preventing Tokyo and Moscow from concluding a postwar peace treaty.
13 South Korean sailors rescued after collision with Japanese fishing boat in Sea of Japan
A South Korean fishing boat collided with a Japanese fishing vessel in the Sea of Japan about 250 kilometers north of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture early Thursday, throwing 13 sailors from the South Korean boat into the sea, media reports and Japanese ...
Abe set to discuss ongoing territorial issue with Putin during Singapore meeting
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to discuss the ongoing territorial dispute with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Singapore, the first stop of the Japanese leader's five-day Asia-Pacific tour that begins Wednesday. The focal point of the summit will be whether Abe can make any ...
Four Chinese ships briefly intrude into Japan's waters near Senkaku Islands
Four Chinese Coast Guard ships entered Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday. It was the first such intrusion since Oct. 17 and the 19th this year. The Haijing 2302, the Haijing 2308, the Haijing 2401 and the Haijing 2501 entered ...
U.S. defense chief works to keep rising Sino-American tensions from boiling over
When the United States imposed sanctions on China's military this fall, China retaliated by canceling Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' plans to meet his counterpart in Beijing. But just days later, a Chinese general visited the Pentagon with a reassuring message: Beijing valued the importance ...
In first, Washington calls on Beijing to remove missiles from South China Sea
The United States has for the first time urged China to remove missile systems deployed to contested man-made islands in the South China Sea, the Pentagon said Friday. The move, believed to be the first time the U.S. had directly addressed the issue, came in ...
Elderly Japanese pine for return to Northern Territories
Yoi Hasegawa still remembers when armed Soviet soldiers burst into her house just days after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II and tried to drag away her teenage sister. At gunpoint, her father shielded his daughters in their home on the island ...
Japan and U.S. to formulate armed response to China threat to Senkakus: sources
Government sources say Japan and the United States plan to draw up an operations plan for a combined response by their armed forces to any Chinese threats to the disputed Senkaku Islands.
Missing: A tiny island off Hokkaido. Or so authorities fear, prompting plans for a survey to determine if the outcrop has been washed away, ever so slightly shrinking the country's territorial waters. The island, Esambe Hanakita Kojima, was only officially surveyed and registered in 1987 ...
