The city of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture said Thursday its mayor plans to propose changing the name of a group of islands over which it has administrative authority to officially include "Senkaku." Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama is pushing for the name change of the Japanese-controlled islets ...
Valentina Matviyenko, head of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, told a visiting Japanese ruling bloc official on Thursday that Tokyo and Moscow are steadily making progress in their talks to conclude a peace treaty to formally end their World War ...
A ceremony to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties between Japan and China was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday, with participation by members of the ruling Communist Party and other officials of the ...
As Kim Jong Un's nuclear efforts in North Korea capture global attention, China is quietly moving to bolster its grip on disputed territory in the South China Sea. Last month, a Philippine lawmaker released photos that he said showed Chinese fishing, coast guard and navy ...
Vietnam on Tuesday issued a strong condemnation of Chinese military live-fire exercises in the disputed South China Sea, amid rising tension between the two countries. The Maritime Safety Administration of China's southern province of Hainan, which oversees the South China Sea, said last month there ...
Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin and secretary of the country's Security Council, will visit Japan from Monday through Sept. 6, diplomatic sources told Jiji Press on Tuesday. Patrushev is expected to meet with Japanese government officials including Shotaro Yachi, head of ...
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera expressed concern Friday after China carried out an unprecedented military drill a day earlier that took six of its bombers close to Japanese territory. The H-6 bombers had flown a route that took them through the Miyako Strait between the islands ...
The U.S. Navy's second major collision by a ship from its 7th Fleet on Monday shows it is "becoming a hazard in Asian waters" amid Washington's claim that the navy is protecting freedom of navigation, Chinese state-run media have said. The U.S. Navy announced Monday ...
Sub-Cabinet-level officials of Japan and Russia agreed on Thursday to aim for reaching at a bilateral summit early next month a final accord on joint economic activities on and around four Northwestern Pacific islands at the center of the two nations' longstanding territorial row. The ...
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 ...
Vietnam has won the promise of a visit from a U.S. aircraft carrier and deeper defense cooperation from the United States, as strains show with China over the disputed South China Sea. Within Southeast Asia, Vietnam has become an increasingly lonely voice in challenging Chinese ...
South Korea on Tuesday lodged a strong protest after Japan reiterated its claim to sovereignty over a pair of South Korean-controlled islets in its annual defense report, summoning a Japanese defense attache and minister. The move to summon Koichi Mizushima, minister at the Japanese Embassy ...
