How to make sense of the dispute between Japan and China over some half a dozen uninhabited islets in the East China Sea known as the Diaoyu to the Chinese and the Senkaku to the Japanese?

China's coast guard vessels completed a record-long deployment to the territorial waters off the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands on Sunday after refusing orders to leave for 80 hours and 36 ...

While Japan's so far measured handling of the dispute makes a direct military conflict unlikely, China's increasingly assertive regional posture in the region—including military threats against ...

But an unexpected flare-up in the Senkaku/Diaoyus could trigger a military confrontation between China and the United States. That’s because the United States has a mutual defense treaty with Japan.

Japan has told Beijing to remove a buoy that it found floating in the sea near the disputed Senkaku islands, known in China as the Diaoyu islands. Tokyo says the buoy was found within its ...

China has begun construction of a new structure in waters between China and Japan in the disputed East China Sea, the Japanese foreign ministry said on Tuesday, adding it has lodged a protest with ...

JAPAN’S plan to transfer Abukuma-class destroyer escorts to the Philippines could enhance Manila’s coastal patrol and maritime defense capabilities, analysts said at the weekend, underscoring the ...

Four China Coast Guard vessels including the Haijing 2350 (front) in the so-called contiguous zone northeast of Kuba, one of the five main islands in the Japanese-controlled Senkaku group, in the ...

The seas around the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands have long been important fishing grounds for communities in northern Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, and mainland China. In fact, ... The fundamentals are ...

The 1972 normalization communique did not deal with the issue, but the dispute intensified after Japan’s government in 2012 nationalized the Senkaku islands, leading to violent protests across ...

Threatened by Trump tariffs, Japan walks a delicate tightrope between US and China While China and Japan are working to mend ties, the two are also competing in the Southeast Asia region, where ...